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Former Ludlow teacher Marjorie marks her 100th birthday

A living legend to generations growing up Ludlow is celebrating a landmark birthday.

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Marjorie Wait, of Castle View Terrace, Ludlow, turned 100 on Wednesday and will be celebrating with a birthday party tomorrow.

Marjorie is a well known figure around the town both for her community work and because she taught Ludlow's school children for four decades.

She received dozens of cards from well-wishers, along with a message from the Queen to mark her centenary year.

Friend and neighbour Jan Merrick said she had enjoyed herself and it had been a busy week for her.

"She is a very sociable lady and has a great many friends, she's very well liked," Mrs Merrick said.

"She's still quite mobile and still manages to get herself up to the shops, and she still manages to live in her own house.

"This is significant for her because her mother died in her 99th year," she said.

From 10am to 1pm tomorrow Miss Wait will be meeting friends and well wishers at Ludlow's Royal British Legion Victory House building on Mill Street.

Marjorie was born in the year the Great War broke out in 1914 and is a keen supporter of the Royal British Legion.

In June she helped raise £400 for the Ludlow branch by taking part in a six-mile walk in her wheelchair.

"She's an incredible woman," Mrs Merrick said. She added Marjorie was looking forward to her celebration tomorrow.

"We couldn't have a party at her house, there would be too many people," she said.

"This is for her to meet and greet friends and any of her old pupils who want to come and see her - or anyone , really, who wants to say happy birthday.

"She's somebody who is a legend to her old pupils. She's got a fantastic memory for them and and remembers many facts about them."

Marjorie attended Ludlow Girl's High School and trained to be a teacher in Cheltenham before teaching at what was then Ludlow Secondary Modern School. She taught at Ludlow School for 40 years and was deputy headteacher there before she retired in the 1970s.

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