TWINS from Powys are believed to be the oldest in the world – aged 100 and nine months – and could soon be in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Ena Pugh and Lily Millward were born on January 4, 1910, and have been close for the whole of their life. Ena lives in Erwood, near Builth Wells and Lily currently lives close to Brecon, they still go shopping together and talk on the phone nearly every night.
Lily’s daughter Dianne Powell, 64, said: “Each of them jumps on a bus on their own every Friday so they can go shopping together and have a chat over a cup of tea.
“And they ring each other almost every evening although they are both very hard of hearing – they can't really always know what the other is saying but just enjoy talking to each other.”
Great-grandmother Lily said that “laughter and having a joke with each other,” was the secret to their long living.
She said: “We used to work on the farm all day, but we would enjoy ourselves.
“It was a lot of fun and sociable. We’ve been very lucky and we have always had good health.”
It was only last week when the family of Ena and Lily realised that they could be the oldest twins in the world following the same claim from another pair twins in France last week who were 98.
Mrs Powell, added: “The French sisters were mere youngsters compared to my mother and aunt. As twins they have been very close all their lives and they are still very close now.”
Ena is the oldest of the twins by only a few minutes when they were born in 1910 at their family farm cottage in the small village of Garthbrengy, they were two of 10 children in their families and are the only survivors.
The family of the two ladies are in the process of contacting the Guinness Book of World Records to get it ratified.