ONE 102-year-old surprised everyone with her piano playing talent.

Rosemary Adams proved that at more than a century old she still has the gift of music when she revealed her talent at The Hyde in Walditch, Bridport.

After a kind benefactor dropped off a baby grand piano to the home, an appeal was put out to see if anyone could play it.

There was hardly a dry eye in the house after Mrs Adams got up and started to play a beautiful rendition of classics including The Bonnie Banks o’Loch Lomond and Auld Lang Syne.

Born in Bristol in 1910 Mrs Adams has always loved the theatre.

She said she had no wish to follow in her parents’ footsteps and be a teacher so she settled for being a secretary to give her time to indulge her passion for acting and producing plays for the theatre.

She wasn’t adverse to writing either and penned her own comic sketches, short stories and even published a detective thriller called The Enemy in the House.

She worked for the Red Cross during the war but never married, largely because so many men of her own generation died during the First World War she said.

She also had to look after her long-widowed mother until she died aged 85 – it was what families did in her day, she says.