A Keighley pensioner received an extra special card from the Queen in her post this week.

On Monday Myrtle Reeves, who lives at the Regency Court Residential Home in Keighley, celebrated her 100th birthday.

Born on March 4, 1902, in Tipton in the West Midlands, Mrs Reeves grew up in a very different world from the one we know today.

At the time of her birth Edward VII had been on the throne for just over a year, following the death of Queen Victoria, the Boer War was drawing to a close and it would be almost two years before the Wright brothers made history with man's first flight.

Mrs Reeves and her husband Alfred lived in York for all of their married lives.

She worked as a tailor and her husband was the sidecar passenger for motorbike racer Eric Cousins, from Leeds.

Mrs Reeves was herself a motorbike enthusiast, although for her it was purely pleasure.

She reminisced: "I've been miles and miles on that motorbike and sidecar. Those were the days."

Surrounded by her family, Mrs Reeves was on top form for her centenary celebrations, though one family member said that she had been a little overwhelmed at all the attention.