A woman whose parents farmed in Frizinghall when it was still countryside is 111 years old today.

Nellie Bradley, a resident at The Gables rest home in Silsden, is believed to be the oldest woman in Britain.

The Guinness Book of Records lists Florence Rawlings of Guiseley, who was 108 in April, as one of the longest lived in the UK.

And in July this year, the Telegraph & Argus reported on the birthday of Nellie Fearnley of The Salts residential home in Saltaire, who was 105.

Mrs Bradley was born in Frizinghall - now a Bradford suburb - and lived with her two brothers and two sisters and parents who farmed in what is now Redburn Road. The man whom she was later to marry, James Bradley, lived nearby with his parents, who farmed in Firth Carr, Frizinghall, and later trained as a veterinary surgeon.

Mrs Bradley and her family moved from Frizinghall to farm at Wensley in Wensleydale. But Nellie and James kept in touch and they married in about 1914, when Mr Bradley - who died in 1966 aged 81 - was serving as a vet with an artillery regiment in the 1914-1918 war.

They had four children - John, who is now 80, Mary, 78, James, 76, and Ralph who is 74.

Ralph said: "Mother was very independent and lived on her own near Ilkley until she was 95 and then went into The Gables.

"She is a very tough person."

He said she had become very fragile over the last three or four years, but until then she enjoyed going out for the day for car rides with the family.

He said his parents moved back to Bradford in the early 1920s and his father set up as a vet.

His mum remained a housewife all her life, looking after the family when James served as a veterinary officer in the 1939-45 war and as a territorial officer with the Queens Own Yorkshire Dragoons.