Jessie's long life recipe is whisky and chocolate! (From Western Telegraph)

Jessie's long life recipe is whisky and chocolate!

BEAMING with joy, Jessie May Langton saw in her 102nd birthday, surrounded by relatives, at Bush House Nursing Home, Pembroke, last week.

Born in 1903, at Long Park, Cresselly, Jessie was the seventh child of Mr and Mrs Ben Hart.

On leaving Cresselly School, she worked as a cleaner in banks around Pembroke Dock. She then moved on to the NAAFI at Llanion Barracks Pembroke Dock, where she became manageress.

It was while working there, during the First World War, that she met her late husband Bert, who was serving with the East Lancs Regiment.

The couple travelled the country, living in a variety of places, including Lancaster, Beaconsfield and, later, London for a number of years, where Bert was a chauffeur and gardener and Jessie a housekeeper.

On retirement in 1967, they returned to the area, moving to Cosheston.

Many of Jessie's favourite memories are of Tenby, walking to Tenby market with her mother when she was young and, in later life, strolling along the beach with her husband.

Having no children, the pair used to do everything together; they particularly enjoyed gardening and fishing.

Her family confirm that her secret of good health and a long life has always been the same: whisky and chocolate, but only Cadbury's.