SHE was born just weeks after the Titanic disaster and can remember the First World War.

Now Anne Mee has celebrated her 100th birthday.

The grandmother-of-six and great grandmother-of-ten marked the milestone yesterday with members of her family and with the traditional congratulations from the Queen.

Anne, who lives in Romsey, puts her long life down to good living and keeping active.

And she added: “I don’t smoke and I don’t drink.”

Anne was born and grew up in Bolton, Lancashire and left school at 14 to work as a seamstress at a cotton mills.

She married chartered engineered Stanley Barton with whom she had her three children in 1938 after they met on the playing fields near the mill.

Anne has been married and widowed three times.

She was only six when the First World War ended. “I remember the Zeppelins coming over and I remember going to see a house that had been bombed by a landmine,” she said.

“I remember sweets being scarce.”

She spent the Second World War doing night shifts in Bolton for emergency calls in case of bombing raids.

She moved down south in 1993 to be closer to her son Alan, 66, who lives in Romsey. Youngsest son Keith Barton, 64, lives in America, and Graham, 69, in Bury St Edmunds.