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Joy for 100 years as the family gather to celebrate a very special birthday

Joy with her great-grandchildren and above, Joy is nomintated for the New Journal’s Pensioner of the Year Award in 1985

FOUR generations of one family gathered on Saturday to celebrate a very special event – the 100th birthday of Camden Town resident Joy Cullinan.
Joy, whose father Thomas, Lord Horder of Ashford, and late husband Edward were doctors at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, is a familiar face in the borough. She worked for the Church Adoption Society in Bloomsbury Square and after retiring in 1980, was a volunteer in the Oxfam shop in Kentish Town Road and CND office in Holloway Road. This week, just days after receiving her telegraph from the Queen, she plans to sign up for a poetry class at the Charlie Ratchford centre in Camden Town. But that will come as no surprise to those who know Joy – during her lifetime she has trained in sculpture and social work, once restored a ruined lighthouse on Beachy Head into a family home and was nominated for the New Journal’s Pensioner of the Year 20 years ago.
So it was not without a little pride that more than 70 relatives wished her well at the special party in Kentish Town community centre in Busby Place on Saturday.
Among the guests were her children Ted, Susan and Anthony, their families and those of her late son Timothy, who was a doctor at St Barts and in Africa, and who died 18 months ago.

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