IT was party time for one Bromsgrove-raised woman, who celebrated her 100th birthday with friends.

Mary Martin, who now lives at Ravenstone Nursing Home in Droitwich, marked the milestone on Monday, July 25 with a big party and received many presents and cards.

Born in New Zealand in 1916, she fondly remembers travelling four miles to school each day on a pony from her home on a farm.

She then moved to Bromsgrove as a child, and lived by The Swan pub for 77 years.