Great-granny oldest office worker

Joan wanted to be a comedian when she left school at 15

A 90-year-old great-grandmother from Greater Manchester could be the country's oldest office worker.

Joan Winnington from Moston still works as a traditional typist in a Manchester city centre office even though she should have retired 30 years ago.

Even though the computer revolution started in Manchester Joan still prefers to do her work on a manual typewriter.

She has vowed to keep working until she was no longer of any use

She added that she had wanted to be a comedian when she left school at 15, but her parents paid half-a-crown a week for her to learn shorthand and typewriting.

At 60 Joan shunned retirement to take a job at Chase Saunders Financial Services, then known as Jacques Clay Johnson.

Alan Clay-Johnson, MD for Chase Saunders, praised Joan's dedication to her job.

"I first took her on to type up ledgers for our collectors, who would take £2 payments from our clients back then, and even now, she's so reliable and larger than life, she puts some people a fraction of her age to shame."