BORN and bred Marlborough resident Peg Siddall has joined an elite club after celebrating her 100th birthday on Sunday.

The centenarian enjoyed a busy few days leading up to the big event, which included visits from dozens of people, a lunch at Marlborough Golf Club on Saturday with 90 people, a celebratory church service on Sunday at Christ Church and the Highfield Residential Home, where she lives, also threw a party for her.

Her mother Hilda Mundy also reached the 100-year milestone, 101 and four months to be precise, and Mrs Siddall, who toasted the arrival of the Queen's card with a glass of sherry, has set her sights on beating that impressive total.

"I can't really believe I have made it to 100 and to receive the Queen's card is very special," she said.

"I want to thank everyone who have helped to make this this all so special. For a long time I have wanted to make it beyond my mother's age so we will see how it goes, I am not far off now."

Mrs Siddall was born on April 9, 1917, to parents Richard and Hilda Mundy and they, with her brother Jim, lived above their family shoe shop, Mundy's, in the High Street.

She attended Marlborough High School until she was 12 before going to boarding school in Weston Super Mare until she was 16.

After leaving school she, who would become a keen gardener, tennis player and needlewoman, went to Pitman College's in West Ealing, London, for a year before joining the Argentine Southern Land Company as a shorthand typist, making 35 shillings a week.

At the age of 17 she began dating George Still, whom she went onto marry in 1939, six weeks before the Second World War broke out. They went onto have three children in Maggie, Jenny and Richard.

During their marriage, they lived in Uxbridge and Maidenhead before moving to Johannesburg in 1957 because of her husband's job.

The family moved back to Marlborough after Mr Still died in 1960. She married John Siddall in 1973 and settled down in Vicarage Close that year.

The family of Mrs Siddall, who moved to the home in 2015 after Mr Siddall died, are now living in far flung places such as New Zealand and South Africa.

She has three children, seven grandchildren, 14 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.