About Health – Oldest woman celebrates birthday
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Florrie was recognised as the oldest living person in the UK in 2007
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The oldest woman in the UK is celebrating her 113th birthday at a nursing home in Leeds.
Guinness World Record holder Florence Emily Baldwin, known as Florrie, was born in the city on 31 March 1896.
Mrs Baldwin, whose husband Clifford died in 1973, holds the titles of Oldest Woman in the UK and Oldest Living Person in the UK.
She once met Queen Victoria in Leeds, was 16 when the Titanic sank and aged 73 when man landed on the moon.
Mrs Baldwin’s family said she was a single-minded lady who was putting up new curtains and cleaning windows at the age of 105.
They said she had been fit all her life and had not even been registered with a doctor until she was 104.
Her only contact with the medical world had been a cataract operation when she was in her 80s.
