72 years at the same firm 在同一家公司任職72年

A Darlington solicitor has finally retired - after an amazing 72 years with the same firm.

Fred Burton was 15 when he was taken on as an office junior at solicitors Latimer Hinks in 1936, reports the Daily Mirror.

Now, aged 88, and a senior legal executive, he has finally called it a day.

Fred said: "I guess the secret was that I really enjoyed it, I loved going into work every day and really got on with the people in the office."

Colleagues held a champagne reception to toast Fred's long service, broken only by a stint in Egypt in the Second World War.

He counts author James Herriot among his clients at the firm in Darlington, Co Durham. He said: "I became friendly with him and his wife."

Once he reached 65, Fred was determined to keep on working and became the office librarian.

Fred believes he may have set a record for a British worker, although he was beaten to a world record by a Goldman Sachs employee in the US who put in 74 years.(Daily Mirror)