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00:00We're here at Castle Hill Care Home to surprise Mrs Taylor for her 100th birthday.
00:08Elspeth Taylor was a wartime trained doctor and began her training during the Second World War
00:14in Glasgow. She then went on to gain further qualifications in Obstetrics and Public Health,
00:20although she worked extensively as a GP. Now Elspeth is celebrating a huge milestone of turning
00:27100 years old, so I was intrigued to meet her. Happy Birthday! Thank you very much.
00:41After meeting lovely Elspeth and her family, including the dog, I wanted to speak with her
00:47daughter Alice to find out more about her incredible mum. So she was born in 1924 when
00:54the world was just such a different place and she did lead a remarkable life. So in the wartime,
01:01in the Second World War in Glasgow, she started her medical training and that was quite unusual
01:08still back then for a woman, so that was remarkable in itself and it was some kind of
01:12special wartime degree as well, jointly with the Edinburgh College of Surgeons. She still
01:18has her medical scrolls, did a Diploma in Public Health and that was the reason actually why she
01:24ended up in Inverness for a while when she was younger, in the 50s, in the 1950s. My mum was
01:31working, she was going around giving injections to kids and families. She was based in an office
01:38that is now part of the council buildings. She used to have a dog and the dog was called Sauna
01:44and yeah, so she used to take the dog out with her in the car and she would be doing all the
01:49injections and health checks around all the schools out in the middle of nowhere and the
01:54teachers in those days, it probably wouldn't happen now, but the teachers used to let her bring the
01:59dog into the classroom and then she had all these party tricks that she used to do. She's
02:05remarkably strong as you can probably tell. She's lived to 100. She's had her telegram from the king
02:13and she's got all her bunting. So I think she's loving today.