HE was born before the invention of the TV, the microwave oven and even sliced bread.

Sid Tunbridge was born the fifth of six children in 1916 while thousands of people across Hampshire were serving their country on the battlefields of the First World War.

Now the great-grandfather-of-five is celebrating his 100th birthday.

The centennial has lived in Southampton all of his life, living with his parents and five siblings at Portchester Road in Woolston until the house was bombed during the Second World War and the family moved to Spring Road.

After leaving Ludlow Road School, Sid took a job at a tailors in Woolston before starting work at Fairey Aviation in Hamble, which became Fairey Marine. He worked as a capstan setter operator for 45 years until he retired at 65-years-old in 1981.

While he was there, the former Home Guard, met his wife Gladys who he married at Southampton Registry Office in the early 1940s.

Gladys, who also worked for British American Tobacco and Pirelli, then moved into the family home in Spring Road where they brought up their only child, Ann.

Sid moved out of Spring Road where he had spent 53 years, after Gladys, 70, died in 1991.

The grandad-of-three then spent 10 years at his daughter’s house before moving to his own home in Bitterne where he lived independently until four years ago.

Now Sid has received a card from the Queen and celebrated his landmark birthday with a party at Southampton’s Grand Cafe with friends and family and another party with friends and staff at Aspen Lodge in Weston where he now lives.