ONE of Bolton's oldest residents has died, aged 103, in Lever Edge House nursing home.
Minnie Anderson, who was was born in Clarendon Street, Bolton, lived through the reigns of six monarchs and 21 prime ministers as well as the Boer War, two world wars and the Great Depression.
She attended St Mark's School in Fletcher Street, leaving when she was 12.
Mrs Anderson was born in Clarendon Street, Bolton, at the end of the last century.
She attended St Mark's School in Fletcher Street, leaving when she was 12.
The remarkable pensioner went to work at the local Marsden's Mill, where she worked 54 hours a week in the card room for six shillings and threepence.
She later married Percy in 1925 but he died in 1962, five years after she retired.
Mrs Anderson put her longevity down to never drinking or smoking and exercising regularly. She died in Bolton's Lever Edge House.
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