A FORMER English teacher who passed on her knowledge to generations of families will celebrate her centenary with a four-wheel drive trip to the summit of Ulverston's famous Hoad monument.

Born in Nottinghamshire, Mollie Points (nee Potter) came to Ulverston in 1938 after being offered a job at Ulverston Grammar School.

She travelled northwards by train expecting dark, dirty cotton mills, smoke and a population wearing clogs but was swept away by the beauty of crossing the Arnside viaduct.

Offered the English teacher job by Dr Cousins at Ulverston Grammar School, she settled happily and met her husband-to-be Malcolm Points (known as Spike) at the school - where he was the biology master.

She left teaching and they lived at the start of the war - where Malcolm served in the Navy - and afterwards, at the bottom of the Hoad monument at Number 1 Belmont.

Daughter Charlotte said her mother 'remembers the buzz of the young evacuees arriving at Ulverston station and having two of them in the house.'

Mollie and Malcolm brought up four girls. As the children grew up she returned to full time teaching and moved from the grammar school to Victoria Secondary Modern School and remained there as it became the Ulverston Victoria High School.

Moving to Grange-over-Sands in 1959, she and Malcolm taught in Ulverston until their retirement in 1978.

She fills her time as a busy gardener running two allotments, as well as painting.

She also continued to explore the hills and countryside with Malcolm until his death in 2000 and was a member and chair of Grange Art Society.

The view over Morecambe Bay with its ever changing landscape continues to fascinate and inspire her.

Mollie will celebrate her birthday with her family including her four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren with various activities including the four wheel drive trip to the top of the Sir John Barrow monument.