111-year-old British woman reveals secret to long life

A great-great-great grandmother who was born before World War One has celebrated her 111th birthday.

Hilda Luck, one of the oldest people in Britain, has marked the amazing milestone with her family, Need To Know reports.

The supercentenarian, who has been widowed since her husband Ron died in 1998, enjoys keeping her mind active by reading and doing word searches.

And she puts her longevity down to never drinking or smoking, along with a love for chocolate, keeping active and reading romantic novels.

“Mum was born in 1914 in Gillingham, Kent,” Hilda’s 80-year-old son Ronnie said.

“She moved with family to Scotland at outbreak of World War One as her father worked for the naval dockyard in Rosyth.

“At age 15, she was put into domestic service in Hythe.

“At the outbreak of World War Two she went into service in Chatham naval dockyard as a gas welder.

“While there she met her future husband Ron – a boiler maker.

“After being married they moved to Rainham and mum still lives in the same address, even after her husband passed.

“She is fully independent and still looks after herself.”

Hilda, from Rainham, Kent, is still in good health.

Her son-in-law Robbie, who lives nearby, and Ronnie, who lives in Whitstable, visit her regularly.

She also has long-standing neighbours who look out for her.

A supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 years or older.

Hilda is believed to be Britain’s sixth oldest person.