Former Tenby hotelier and Borough Councillor Peter Osborne has celebrated his 100th birthday.

Born and bred in London for the first 43 years of his life, with his wife Gly, Peter ‘upped sticks’ in 1964 to run her late parents’ Fourcroft Hotel in Tenby.

They brought their experience of working for Marriage Guidance (later rebranded Relate) which they were responsible for introducing to West Wales. He was subsequently awarded an MBE for his efforts.

He was a founder trustee of Pembrokeshire Action for Single Homelessness and set up Victim Support in West Wales (now both covered by Pembrokeshire Care Society).

Peter later worked, again in a volunteer capacity, for the Parole Board, initially in Swansea and later for the UK Board in London, utilising the diploma in criminology he gained some 30 years previously from Kings University, London.

He also served as a Tenby Borough Councillor for a few years.

But his ‘lightbulb moment’ in 1989 proved to be his favourite initiative, that of the Walled Towns Friendship Circle as “an international forum to promote the many mutual interests shared by walled towns”. Lifetime President, there is a blue plaque on Five Arches and another white plaque for the Piran Declaration from one of the annual international symposia. Tenby’s turn to host was in the year 2000. At its peak, Walled Towns Friendship Circle had 142 member towns all across the world.

Gly Osborne, to whom he was married for over 64 years, died in 2012. On Saturday (November 27) Peter celebrated his 100th birthday with their four children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.

Tenby Mayor Sam Skyrme-Blackhall, visited Mr. Osborne on his birthday with Clr. Trevor Hallett, and presented him with some winter plants for his garden and a scroll on behalf of the town council congratulating him on his 100th birthday.