Officers mark Lilian’s 100th birthday

17 February 2021

West Midlands officers decided they couldn’t let a special local resident’s 100th birthday go unnoticed last week.

Lilian Greenway is a resident at Heartlands Care and Nursing home in Yardley, Birmingham but has no close family. So a staff member took to social media to ask for cards and well wishes for the milestone birthday.

Almost 9,000 birthday cards and gifts from around the world arrived as a result and West Midlands Police took the opportunity to make her birthday even more memorable by hand delivering cards and a watercolour painting of Acocks Green police station by budding artist PC Alan Davis.

West Midlands Police Federation chair Jon Nott said: “Officers felt they wanted to do something special to mark this lady’s 100th birthday. Inspector Simon Graham passed the message around to his teams and officers wrote cards and got creative.

“It’s been a tough year so this was a great opportunity to give something back to a member of our community and to raise spirits a little. Lilian deserved to have a lovely day.”