Hitting a century Ex-county cricketer reaches 100

FORMER Gloucestershire county cricket player has celebrated his 100th birthday and had a party with friends, family and his Pilates class pals.

- Kim HORTON

The city born and bred former-RAF fighter pilot, Graham Terrett also played for Gloucester City FC and has led an incredibly busy life and shows no signs of slowing down.

Mr Terret has always lived in Gloucester and met and married his wife Eileen and raised his daughter in the city, and its where he also worked for years as an accountant after leaving the RAF.

He was born at home in Stratton Road on June 16 1925. He was an only child to his parents and would be described as 'Once seen never forgotten.' He went to school aged four to Derby Road infants school where is says Miss Rees was his favourite teacher.

Thereafter he joined the choir in Good Shepherd Church and was at the National School in Gloucester for a time before being advised to take test to enter choir at Gloucester Cathedral school which enabled him to go to King’s School until he was 15-years-old.

Then he left school and started work as a junior wages' clerk at William Gardener's engineers in 1940.