Woman, 90, says she gets 'sense of achievement' working every day

Joan Narey still goes to work every day at the age of 90

A 90-year-old woman who has been working in the same job for almost seven decades said it gives her a "sense of achievement".

Joan Narey started working at Narey's Garden Centre in Stowmarket, Suffolk, after she married her husband in 1955.

Her role has mainly been looking after the company accounts as well as working on the tills.

Mrs Narey said she enjoys working alongside her family every day and that "all of my dreams have come true".

The family-run garden centre on Spikes Lane, near Tot Hill, was founded in 1955 by Mrs Narey's father-in-law.

"I do the accounts, I do not do as many as I did before," she said.

Joan Narey started working at the garden centre when she was 21

She added: "I do quite a bit - I do the tills and every night I have to try and balance the books."

Before she got married, Mrs Narey took a typing, shorthand and bookkeeping course at a school in Ipswich. "When I was younger I used to pretend I was working in an office," she said.

Back then she travelled to Ipswich by bus, and it was on one of these journeys that she met her husband-to-be, who was attending the same school to take an agricultural course.

But she admitted she did not know a lot about gardening before she got married.

Mrs Narey said she did not think she would still be working at the age of 90, but going to work everyday has given her a "sense of achievement".

"I have a nice life," she added.