FORMER mill girl Winifred Dean celebrates her 100th birthday today. Mrs Dean, a widow, received a telegram from the Queen and attended a party with her nephews and nieces at the Lyngate Nursing Home, Wigan Road, Bolton.
Mrs Dean started work at a local mill when she was just 12 and was married in Deane Church to her childhood sweetheart Harold Dean who died 20 years ago.
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