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Article: Born 1 Jan, 1900 Florence Parsons celebrates her 100th birthday today. Her life's story is the story of the 20th century
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 1, 2000
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Florence Parsons was born on 1 January 1900, a birthday so
enviably neat, so supremely easy to remember, that it's a shame that
birthdays can't be assumed by deed poll the way that names can. What
fun to have gone through life writing 1-1-00 on boring official
forms. Florence herself laughed when she told me, as if it were new
to her, but then she laughs a great deal, even at her age. Florence
Parsons will be celebrating her 100th birthday today, in a home she
recently moved into in Highgate, North London.
She was born Florence Hall, and when she arrived at the first
light of the new century, her family was living at 3 Chase Road,
Southgate, in North London. Her father used to be the ...
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