The Banbury ballroom dancer turned 102 last week! 🎉
Christine Brookes was born on June 29 1920 in Bridgewater, in Somerset. The family moved to Swindon when she was just two. From a very young age Christine showed talent in many things, she learned to play the piano as a child, and later also played the organ in her local church.
During the Second World War, she served in the National Fire Service in Swindon. She met her husband Reg, a recently de-mobbed soldier at a dance just after the war and they moved to North Wales. Now, in her later years, Christine is registered blind, and lives the next chapter of her life at Glebefields, no longer donning her dancing sequins but she can still set the room alight with her smile.
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