SHE may have been known as Dolly on account of her slight frame but there's nothing feeble about Alice Rogers, who celebrated her 100th birthday this week.

The Malvern resident reached her centenary year on Monday (March 2) and celebrated with her family at a party in Worcester.

She is a well known face in Malvern, where she has lived for nearly all her life, and she has resided in her current home in Old Hollow road for 76 years.

But Mrs Rogers is also known for looking after people, having been caring for others her whole life.

This caring nature began at a young age, when Mrs Rogers, who has a large family, left school at 14 and helped to care for her brothers and sisters.

She also spent time with her dad, a master hop dryer, picking hops, and working with the family at Madresfield Court.

"I spent a lot of time there when I was young," she said. "I was small so they called me Dolly," said Mrs Rogers. "My dad said I was so small like a couple of handfuls."

It was her extensive family that led her to meet her husband Reg, who died in 1974.

"We met at a football match," remembered Mrs Rogers. "He used to play football with my older brother and they were the best of friends.

"We married when I was 24 at Malvern Registry Office."

The couple went on to have three children, daughters Pauline and Hazel and son Peter, who sadly died.

And she still lives in the house they moved to when she married, where all her children were born.

Mrs Rogers brought up her kids, only beginning work as a caterer at the Abbey School when they were at school.

"I have always looked after people and seen a lot of changes," said Mrs Rogers.

"I have had a busy life. I never regretted anything I have done though my life. We have had our ups and downs. but at the same time I have never regretted it."

Mrs Rogers now has five grandchildren and they have had six great-grandchildren, all of whom she says she is happy to have.