105-year-old Joan Prince shares her secret to a long and healthy life

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00:00 Well I left school at 14 and I went into my mum and dad's fish and chip shop

00:04 just cutting paper because they used to wrap fish and chips in newspaper in those days

00:11 at 206 a week and then I was promoted to behind the counter when I was 15

00:19 and I earned five shillings a week. And how long were you doing that for?

00:26 I was doing that until I was at least 20 and then I got married at 21.

00:33 And where did you get married? At St Anne's Catholic Church.

00:39 Is that the one that you still go to? Yes, after all these years.

00:44 And do you go every single week? Very few of the congregation that I know now, they've all gone.

00:53 Tell me about your wedding, you got married just before? Well the war had just started and everything

00:58 was rationed so the people that lived around me all put together and all baked something,

01:05 baked a cake and things like that and we had a tea in the, it used to be a tea room at the back of

01:14 the old co-op, you wouldn't know it now, and they all brought something and we had a lovely wedding

01:21 tea and I don't know wherever they got the food from because everything was rationed.

01:27 We had a lovely, really lovely meal and there's quite a lot of people there and this auntie of

01:34 mine that could play the piano, she played the piano for dancing and we had a really, really

01:39 lovely evening. You told me a little bit about what you think your secret might be and you said

01:45 about the marmite. Well my secret, the only thing I know that I do regularly and I've done for,

01:52 since my husband died 45 years ago, is toast a marmite and I have it every morning without fail

02:00 unless I'm on holiday. That's as much as I can tell you about that and a glass of sherry

02:07 in the evening, sometimes two, and that's been a regular thing for quite a few years.

02:14 Oh and I forgot a glass of health salt, a tiny little, I've got a little glass, a little whiskey

02:21 top glass and I have a half a teaspoon full of Andrew's liver salts and that's it.