British pension was fair game until we had to pay for it ourselves

Many of the claimants — who were watched by spectators, such was the novelty and the excitement — seemed a lot younger than 70 and there was concern also about the massive queues in some places.

In Ennis, the rush was such that a police presence was required to keep order

LAST week the Government approved designs for nine new stamps, including one to mark the centenary of the introduction of the old age pension in 1908 by the government of David Lloyd George.