SHE may have turned 100 on Friday but Jessie Stewart is no less independent.

Jessie still lives on her own and didn't start hillwalking and climbing over fence stiles until her 80s.

And at the weekend, family from around the world reunited in Clydebank to honour the "queen for a day".

With six children, 19 grandchildren, 23 great grandchildren and eight great great grandchildren, it's a big family to keep track of and some journeyed from as far away as Canada and South Africa for the celebration on Saturday at the West Park Hotel.

Provost Douglas McAllister and Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Dunbartonshire Owen Sayers dropped in with a card from the Queen to mark 100 years.

Born in Edinburgh on June 3, 1916, Jessie was raised in Bonnybridge before later moving to Hardgate to begin work at Singers. She had lodgings with a family and met the son, Alex, and they would go on to have decades of marriage until his dead at the age of 82.

The family home was destroyed in the Blitz and daughter Sheila Mackenzie said that may have contributed to the independent streak in her mum.

"She was always making our clothes - she has always been very independent," explained Sheila. "She wants to do everything. She does everything herself.

"She would climb over the stiles in her 80s walking the hills. It puts us to shame."

The family initially lived in Stanley Street until the Blitz destroyed everthing but they returned to the area after the war and stayed in Hardgate, in "The Craigs" before moving to Gilmour Avenue.

Jessie has lived in Auchinlech Terrace for more than 40 years now.

Along with Shiela, Jessie had children Sandra, Alex, Nan, Norman and Lindsie. Norman is sadly deceased.

Jessie attended the West Church in Duntocher and later Faifley Parish Church as well as being a member of the Trinity Church Guild in Duntocher for many years.

Sheila and her sisters get together with their mum every Wednesday, something dubed "the coven" by their husbands.

She added: "Nobody can believe she is 100. She doesn't look it."