A former well-known bakery shop assistant has celebrated her 100th birthday.
Fiercely indepenent great-great-grandmother Stella Watts, from Hellesdon, was described as "amazing" by her daughter, Sally Cutting, who was one of 30 friends and family who marked the landmark occasion on December 5.
Mrs Cutting, 71, from St Andrews Road, Hellesdon, described her mother as someone who lived life with "sheer grit and determination".
"She looked after us well and has always been interested in what is going on in the world."
Mrs Watts, nee Lister, was born in Cockley Cley, but in 1939 went to Northampton to work in a munitions factory in the Second World War.
The plant enthusiast met and married her first husband, Albert Watts, in Northampton in 1942, and they had two daughters. He died in 1963.
They lived across Norfolk and moved to Hellesdon in 1961 and she worked at three city bakeries ending at Birds Bakery in Mile Cross Lane, where she met her second partner, Norman Green, who died 17 years ago.
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