As Windsor enters a new decade, one vivacious resident is celebrating the start of her 110th.

Violet Auger turned 100-years-old yesterday (Thursday).

She was born Violet Hughes in 1920 in the town - the ninth of 10 children, four of whom had died before she came along. Her father died when she was eight but her brothers Albert, George and Horace and sister Edith gave her a happy childhood with regular trips to the cinema.

Violet worked in the Corona factory in Windsor from the age of 14. She met her future husband Frederick during a bike ride in the town with her lifelong friend Joyce Lane.

He cycled beside her and they went on to marry and have six daughters.

She has lived through the Second World War, seeing streets bombed and lives lost.

Frederick was in the navy and she says: "I was one of the lucky ones. He came home."

The family moved away from Windsor because of Frederick's work and Violet worked as an auxilliary nurse in various hospitals. After her husband's death she used that skill to work as a warden in a residential care homes back in Windsor until she retired in 1978.

Now she has 16 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and 10 great great grandchildren.

She lives in independent housing in Kipling Court, Windsor - looking after herself, cooking, cleaning and doing her own laundry and shopping with the help of one of her daughters.

Her secret of her long life, is 'just keep busy'.