Denmead man celebrates his 100th birthday - and looks forward to huge celebration after pandemic
Submitting... Boris Mayfield on a Zoom call to his friends on his birthday. ‘But now we have postponed that until the summer. I am going to be 100 all over again.’ Born in New Southgate, London, Boris was one of five boys. His parents later adopted a girl, the mother of Tracy Brown, who is his beloved niece and closest remaining relative who he sees regularly. Boris spent much of his childhood in Hillingdon until two of his brothers contracted tuberculosis. He says: ‘It was because we used to drink bottled milk straight from cows without it being cleaned. We moved to Shoreham by the sea...
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