DUNDEE WOMAN Elizabeth Madden celebrated her 104th birthday with champagne on Saturday, surrounded by five generations of her family.

Mrs Madden, who stays at the Sidlaw House sheltered housing complex in Ardler, can clearly remember the sinking of the Titanic and both world wars.

She has lived through a host of technological advances—making today’s world very different from the one she was born into in 1904.

The youngest of eight siblings, Mrs Madden grew up in the east of Dundee, before working as a spinner in the city’s mills and, later, as a private housekeeper.

She married her husband, Peter, at St Patrick’s Church in Arthurstone Terrace in 1927, and had one daughter, Anna.

She now has three grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grand- daughter.

Mrs Madden said, “I don’t see so many all together like this very often. This is the only occasion—so it’s nice.”

She vividly remembers many of the major events of the twentieth century.

“I was eight years old when the Titanic went down. I was too young to understand what it was but I can remember people speaking about it.

“I was 10 years old when the first world war started and was working in the mill before it had finished.”

She also spoke of acting as a fire warden during the second world war and food shortages during the depression-hit 1930s.

Pictured: Mrs Madden with (clockwise from front left) Anna, Anna, Donnie, Lynsey, Pauline, Anne, Andrew and Katy.