Popular Enid Pollard, formally of Cherhill, has died at the age of 107.

Mrs Pollard, who lived in Marsh Lane in Cherhill for around 50 years before moving to The Firs Care Home in Calne, died at Great Western Hospital on August 5.

Her funeral was due to be held today at St James’s Church in Cherhill, where her father Henry Tucker was also buried.

One of seven siblings, Mrs Pollard was born to architect Henry Tucker in Ashby-de-la-Zouch in Leicestershire in 1901, and had three brothers and three sisters.

She grew up in Leicestershire and used to tell her family about her work in a munitions factory during the second world war.

Her nephew Phillip Tucker said: “She said it was quite dangerous work and over the years there had been one or two explosions. Fortunately they did not affect her.

“Apart from that I do not think she did any work. Prior to the war it was not the done thing for a woman from a fairly well to do family to do any work.”

Mrs Pollard, who counted one of her best life experiences as going up in a plane when she was 19, lost her brother Wilfred in the First World War.

She met her husband William in St Leonards-on-Sea after she joined a group that travelled the country helping out in children’s homes.

After moving to Staffordshire to run a new children’s home together the couple got married when Mrs Pollard was 40 years old. They moved to Cherhill in the 1940s to be nearer William’s sister, who lived in Calne, and when her husband died in 1956 Mrs Pollard lived alone until she was well into her 90s.

She did not have any children of her own, but had step grandchildren from Mr Pollard’s first marriage and liked to keep in touch with her many nieces and nephews.

Even in her old age Mrs Pollard would walk from Cherhill to Calne once a week to get books from the library, and said the secret to her long life was a small whisky with her coffee every morning.

Around 50 people were expected to attend the funeral of popular Mrs Pollard today, including staff from The Firs Care Home, where Mrs Pollard enjoyed walking around and having other residents pop into her room for a chat.