Twin sisters Anne Brown and Florence Boycott celebrated their 100th anniversary last week with a party at the nursing home in the English town of Barnsley, attended by several friends and five generations of the family.
Anne Brown recalled to the BBC that her father could not tell them apart when they were children and that he was ‘desperate’ as a result. “We had a very close bond and were always together,” she says at the time of the reunion. After all, it had been several years since they had seen each other, which made this birthday party even more special.
The secret to a long life, according to Anne, is ‘moving forward’ and ‘going to bed early’.
Kathy Lindsay, Florence Boycott’s daughter, revealed that the twins had eight other siblings, five boys and three girls, who “lived in a house that only had two bedrooms”. And he reveals an episode that proves it wasn’t just the father who confused them: “One time my Aunt Anne came into my house and I thought it was my mother. Moreover, I also confused them on the phone, because the voices we are the same.”
And if family members confuse them, what about other people? “They would switch boyfriends if they had one they didn’t like,” says Kathy Lindsay, revealing that the twins worked in a shirt factory in Barnsley for years, but Florence eventually got other jobs – in a bakery, a dairy etc. a school. Anne Brown worked at a sewing stall at a market until the 1990s.
Source: DN
