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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Adam Aspinall

Four pensioners who met as toddlers are still friends 86 years later

Four pensioners who became friends as toddlers are still ­inseparable almost 90 years later.

Pamela Wright, Mary Betteridge, Freda Jackson and Elsie Marsay first met in 1935 when they were three years old.

The grandmothers, who are all aged 89 and widowed, have kept in touch ever since and still regularly meet up for lunch and talk every day on the phone.

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