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Article: Doris celebrates her 100th.
- Article from:
- Evening Courier (Halifax, England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2007
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WHEN Doris Nethergate's mother and father first arrived in Halifax soon after the turn of the last century they were distinctly unimpressed by the smoky mill town.
But Doris, who was born in the town a few years after their arrival, loved it so much she has stayed - to her 100th birthday.
"There's been a lot of change," she said. "When I was a little girl there were gas lamps and mills everywhere. It was a different world really."
Such is the scale of the change Doris's old school - Trinity School - and many of her previous workplaces, including Edmund Spencer's, a book binders near Upper Crown Street, no longer exist.
And neither do ...
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