Newsreel clip of Mrs Mary Budd, 101 birthday party on 16/08/1956. Mrs Budd choose to celebrate her birthday at the Ritz Cinema in Darkes Lane. Invited guests included the Chairman of the Urban District Councill. A tea party was provided with Red Cross nurses acting as a waitresses.
Mary Budd was a resident of Howgate Old People’s Home, Barnet Road, Potters Bar.
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I have fond memories of ‘Granny Budd’. Before I even started school she taught me to wink – much to my Dad’s disgust! She was always full of mischief, much to the delight of myself and the frustration of my parents. I was often at Howgate as my Gran (Nellie Mott) was the ‘relief matron’ for Middlesex homes and, when not needed elsewhere, she had a room at Howgate, which was near her daughter (my mother) as we lived in Potters Bar.