The choir at St John's care home in North Yorkshire has been named the oldest in the world. Photo: ITV NewsThe choir at St John's care home in North Yorkshire, may be singing their carols with a little more gusto this year.
Its 13 members, who are all residents have just smashed a world record.
It is officially the oldest choir in the world, with an average age of 91. Between them, they have 1,180 years of experience.
ITV News reporter Damon Green went to meet them:
It's sort of buoys you up in this stage of life. You don't feel like you're coming to the end you feel as if you've done something.
– Sid Shorter, chorister
Organiser say the benefits are not just physical as the choristers breathe deeply and the mental exercise of learning music and lyrics, but having performances gives the residents something to look forward to.
It's lovely. Best time really. Apart from anything else it's good company if you go somewhere like a home, it's nice to join in with things and the choir is one thing that if you can sing a bit - that you get on well with other people.
– Molly Arnold-Foster, chorister
