Two residents of a New Malden home are celebrating their centenaries just a month apart, 100 years after both were born in Peckham.

Doris Turner turned 100 on Sunday, November 11, and co-resident of Hobkirk House in Blagdon Road, Maud Cook, will be receiving her telegram from the Queen on December 11.

Doris was born in Peckham, the middle child in a family of nine, but moved to George Road, New Malden in 1908 and attended Burlington Road School.

She started work at 14, as a domestic servant in Chestnut Grove, before going on to work in a papier mache figure factory.

She married Charles Turner in 1934 and together they ran the coffee shop on the corner of George and Burlington Roads. She managed the shop on her own during the war.

Sadly her husband died just after the war and Doris went back to George Road to look after her mother. She moved into Hopkirk House a few months ago.

Maud, who worked in a laundry in Peckham, married Henry Cook in 1925 and moved to Dulwich where they had two children.

The couple moved to Tolworth when Henrys work took him there, and Maud has lived at Hopkirk for six years.

She is a great-grandmother and will be joined by her grandchildren for her birthday celebrations.

A spokesman for Hopkirk House said: It is rare that we have one person turning 100, so having two is amazing.