100-year-old prepares to vote

A great-grandmother who turns 100 on the day of the election is preparing to vote.
Mrs May Ellams, of Main Street, Morton — pictured looking at the Advertiser’s election coverage — plans to vote on her birthday, Thursday, May 6.

Since Mrs Ellams was born in 1910 there have been 18 prime ministers starting with Herbert Asquith and finishing with Gordon Brown.

She is a supporter of the Conservative party and her favourite prime minister was Sir Winston Churchill.

Mrs Ellams, a former business women who owned a hair salon, May Verity’s, in West Bridgford for 41 years, said of Churchill: “He got things done.”

Mrs Ellams, who was born eight years before women were given the right to vote, said it was important for people to vote.

She said she followed the political parties on television and hoped David Cameron would be prime minister.

Mrs Ellams, a former chairman of the Hairdressers Federation, will go to the polling station in Fiskerton with her son-in-law and daughter, Mr and Mrs Bob Vickers.

She will mark her birthday with a party with friends on the day, followed by a family party on Sunday, May 9.