THIS football-loving great grandmother, who spent two decades working at Brown’s department store in York, has celebrated her 100th birthday.

To mark her centenary, Margaret Taylor, a resident at Fothergill Homes, in Clifton, was presented with a bouquet of flowers from the store’s former director, Paul Stabler, the grandson of WP Brown.

Mrs Taylor – who has a son, two grandsons, one granddaughter and five great-grandchildren – worked in the menswear department during the 1940s and 1950s. Later, she worked as an enrolled nurse at the former county hospital in York and at Morrell House, in Burton Stone Lane.

Margaret Crudames, a friend and neighbour, described Mrs Taylor as a “very impressive lady”. “She rode her bike into town until she was 90 and only stopped when she had a hip operation and her bike got stolen from outside her home,” she said.

“She also loves football and if there’s a football match on television, she will always watch it.”