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LONG-TIME local Allan Pryor recently celebrate his 100th birthday with nearly 100 of his friends and family.
The Wyee resident was born at Arncliffe on April 23, 1915, and has been a Central Coast resident for almost 70 years.
Mr Pryor worked a number of different jobs, but always saw himself as a passionate farmer and grew onions in his first garden when he was five years old.
Since then he has owned citrus orchards and poultry farms in Narara, Lisarow and Mangrove Mountain, where he also farmed many varieties of stone fruit as well as small crops of tomatoes, beans and peas.
During the Great Depression, Allan trapped rabbits around Quirindi and sold their skins, and he also worked as a shearer.
In 1937 he started farming duties on Claremont station at Pine Ridge near Quirindi, where he met his wife Gladys.
They married the following year in Cardiff and had four children together.
In 1940 he began a career with NSW Railways that lasted 35 years. In that time Mr Pryor worked his way up from labourer to ganger (head of labourers). He retired in 1975.
Mr Pryor, who has 12 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and one great-great grandchild, attributes his longevity to not smoking and not drinking.