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Mrs Taylor turns 100-years-old
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14/10/2024
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We're here at Castle Hill Care Home to surprise Mrs Taylor for her 100th birthday.
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Elspeth Taylor was a wartime trained doctor and began her training during the Second World War
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in Glasgow. She then went on to gain further qualifications in Obstetrics and Public Health,
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although she worked extensively as a GP. Now Elspeth is celebrating a huge milestone of turning
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100 years old, so I was intrigued to meet her. Happy Birthday! Thank you very much.
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After meeting lovely Elspeth and her family, including the dog, I wanted to speak with her
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daughter Alice to find out more about her incredible mum. So she was born in 1924 when
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the world was just such a different place and she did lead a remarkable life. So in the wartime,
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in the Second World War in Glasgow, she started her medical training and that was quite unusual
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still back then for a woman, so that was remarkable in itself and it was some kind of
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special wartime degree as well, jointly with the Edinburgh College of Surgeons. She still
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has her medical scrolls, did a Diploma in Public Health and that was the reason actually why she
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ended up in Inverness for a while when she was younger, in the 50s, in the 1950s. My mum was
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working, she was going around giving injections to kids and families. She was based in an office
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that is now part of the council buildings. She used to have a dog and the dog was called Sauna
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and yeah, so she used to take the dog out with her in the car and she would be doing all the
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injections and health checks around all the schools out in the middle of nowhere and the
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teachers in those days, it probably wouldn't happen now, but the teachers used to let her bring the
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dog into the classroom and then she had all these party tricks that she used to do. She's
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remarkably strong as you can probably tell. She's lived to 100. She's had her telegram from the king
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and she's got all her bunting. So I think she's loving today.
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