Mrs Eliza Luckett (107), celebrated her birthday in good style at Cuckfield Hospital. The television camera was in the Lindfield Ward to see her cut her birthday cake. A request number 'The Baby's Dimple' was played for her on the BBC programme Housewives' Choice and in another programme, a Strauss polka was played in her honour. After a bacon and egg breakfast she enjoyed a glass of brandy, and throughout the day gifts arrived. A telegram from the Queen congratulated Mrs Luckett, who formerly lived at Wivelsfield.

West Sussex Gazette & South Of England Advertiser, 17 November 1955

Foonote:Woman dies at 107

Mrs Elisa Lockett, believed to be the oldest woman in Britain, died at Cuckfield, Sussex, Hospital yesterday, aged 107. Birmingham Daily Post, 12 May 1956

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