Oxford's oldest resident has died, aged 105.

Bessie Crawford passed away at the Audit Care Mon Choisy residential home, in Kennington, where she had lived for the last 10 years.

Staff at the home said Mrs Crawford died peacefully on Tuesday morning.

Tonight, her son-in-law William Hack told the Oxford Mail she had lived a long and fulfilled life.

He said: "She was a very, very nice woman and, as a mother-in-law, she was very good to me.

"I have very fond memories of the family holidays we went on, to Devon and Cornwall. We used to take her up to Scotland and she enjoyed that.

"She got on with everyone, she did not have an enemy in the town."

Mr Hack, 81, from Cowley, Oxford, said Mrs Crawford had been a keen knitter and gardener in her younger days.

He said: "She used to like her Oxford Mail to get the local news, she used to look forward to that."

Ellen Audit, proprietor of the Kennington residential home, said: "We are all very upset and saddened because we cared for her so much. She was dearly loved and we miss her.

"It is very sad at the moment until we get used to not seeing her and having her around."

Mrs Audit said she would always have fond memories of Mrs Crawford.

She said: "She used to like honey sandwiches. She loved them, and shortbread biscuits.

"She enjoyed celebrating her birthday. Ever since she was 100, she enjoyed her party every year."

Mrs Crawford was born in Sandford-on-Thames on March 11, 1902.

She married her husband Harley in 1926 and the couple later moved to Church Cowley Road, Oxford.

They had one daughter, Joyce, who married Mr Hack in 1950.

Mrs Crawford had one grandson, Andrew, and two great-grandsons, Graham and Stephen, who live in Reading.

Her husband died in the mid-1980s and Joyce died in 1994.

During World War Two she worked in the munitions factory in Cowley, now the BMW plant.

In the year Bessie Crawford was born Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published, the teddy bear and air conditioning were invented, Edward VII, below, took the throne, following the death of Queen Victoria the previous year, the first Collins Gem Dictionary was published, the three-year Boer War ended and the Greenwich foot tunnel under the Thames in London was opened.