Dorothy 'Daw' Roberts celebrates her 100th birthday on July 9th
A Manchester born woman recalls the stories of living through the war and regular bomb threats as she celebrates her 100th birthday.
Now a great-grandmother, she claimed that it was her grandchildren that kept her young. " I used to take them swimming. I used to take them tap dancing. I used to do tap dancing with them. Born on July 9, 1924, in Miles Platting, Dorothy and her family moved to Failsworth after the passing of her grandmother. And after six years, her family moved to Newton Heath, which she was grateful for, and said: “That’s where everything that happened to me, I grew up more.”
And this didn’t come without any dangerous encounters. She recalled a night where she came home from her local dance club: “I can remember going out dancing one night, we had regular bombs dropping, and I just got about two steps upstairs and a bomb went down two roads away from us.” “We had French dancers, New Zealand, Australian, they all came to dances. I think I was out every night when I was younger.”
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