An ‘incredible’ centenarian celebrated her 105th birthday with a glass of bubbly and afternoon tea.

Nona Glasper, from Puddletown, was surrounded by her family as they came together to celebrate her milestone birthday.

She was joined by her daughter, son-in-law, three grandchildren and their partners to have a family lunch and tea party.

The celebration took place at Puddletown Village Hall during the St Mary’s Church monthly lunch club - an event Mrs Glasper attends regularly.

Her guests were treated to a variety of sandwiches, scones, mini cakes, lemon mousse and even a glass of Prosecco to raise to the birthday girl.

Gladys Antell from the St Mary’s Church events team said Mrs Glasper was ‘an incredible woman’ and made her a spectacular red and white cake to mark the occasion.

Volunteer Emma Hughes said: “The cake was brought out with all the candles lit - when it was put in front of her she looked very surprised indeed.”

Originally a northern girl, Mrs Glasper was born close to the Yorkshire borders in Darlignton, Durham on August 10, 1913. She was one of ten children with four sisters and five brothers.

Until the age of 14, Mrs Glasper attended school in the small village of Denton when she gained employment as a part-time potato picker and later in the year, taking a turn at turnip snagging - which involves pulling the turnips from the ground and topping and tailing them with a bill hook.

Through the following years, Mrs Glasper had a variety of jobs from her first full-time job working in a farmhouse and heading to York to ‘sign on’ for the railway where she painted signal boxes, bridges and tunnels before working in a school as a kitchen assistant.

In 1949, she married Arthur Glasper, a gamekeeper, and they moved to Huntington where their daughter was born. They moved to Lincolnshire, living in a shepherd’s hut, where she cooked on a two-ring hob and small wood-burning oven.

Later they moved again, this time to Salisbury, before settling in Puddletown.

- where Mr Glasper was still the gamekeeper.

In 1980, Arthur retired and the couple moved to Beech Road, Puddletown where sadly, two years later he passed away.

Their home in Beech Road remains Mrs Glasper’s residence today where she still cooks cakes and walks to the village shop at least twice a week.