Ava Doherty talks to a Finchley resident about a lifetime of change Mrs Thompson There is an idea of a centenarian as someone who becomes a curiosity: seated in a corner with a lap blanket, politely admired from a safe distance. Mrs Enid Geneve Thompson is not like that. Born in Jamaica on 7th June 1926, Mrs Thompson celebrated her 100th birthday last month. She crossed the Atlantic around sixty years ago and settled in Finchley, which she says …
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