Julie Hopwood, 65, was cradling her new grandchild when she received a cheque for £125,000 from the Postcode Lottery, calling the experience a "week from heaven".
The B&B landlady from Surrey shared £1m with five other neighbours in the village of Send after GU23 7AJ landed the lottery's weekly Millionaire Street prize on Saturday 1 August. Every ticket was worth £125,000, but one player tripled their winnings by playing with three tickets.
Hopwood said: "I got a phone call when I was at my daughter’s house on her due date to pick up my other grandson. But I didn’t believe it. I put the phone down and said to my daughter, ‘did that really happen?’"
"Having a grandson and then winning £125,000 is just fantastic, amazing…a dream come true. I’m never going to forget this week."
Julie and her husband Shaun, 75, plan to use some of the money to support their growing family, which now includes two-year-old Henry, five-month-old Arthur and the newborn Jack. She said: "I’ve gone from having no grandchildren to having three in a short space of time. I’d like to put a little bit aside for when the grandchildren are older and maybe help their parents out. We’ll have to sit down and work it out."
How the Postcode Lottery works
The Postcode Lottery, formerly People's Postcode Lottery, costs £12.50 a month to play and there are guaranteed winners every day. Players use their chosen postcode and are automatically entered into all draws.
Seven Greater Manchester postcodes each scooped £1,000 over the last seven days: WN4 9RE, SK8 3AY, M23 2TU, M22 5DB, WA9 5QB, M40 9BZ, and M33 7BN.
Full list of winning streets
Here are all of the Postcode Lottery winners from the last week:
Sunday 26 July
- BD13 2EH
- BS26 2BY
- CH4 7DQ
- CW6 0EQ
- CW7 2FJ
- DH4 4LG
- DL14 7RU
- FK2 9PW
- FK5 4TS
- FK7 0AN
- HD8 8PR
- IP3 9QY
- LE2 2PW
- NN5 6UX
- NN5 7BG
- SA18 2AB
- SP2 7FZ
- TA3 6HZ
- W4 3JS
- ZE1 0SB
Monday 27 July
- B11 3HD
- BD20 9LE
- BS22 6HY
- BS5 7LQ
- CO15 2QT
- CO9 1NF
- CR3 6DA
- E15 3AD
- KA15 2EF
- LE15 6PE
- LS27 7SN
- M22 5DB
- M23 2TU
- MK40 2LX
- NP15 1NJ
- OX14 3UB
- PR4 0AX
- RG26 3NW
- SA70 8DR
- SK8 3AY
Tuesday 28 July
- BA21 3GZ
- BH10 7HQ
- BN16 1RX
- BN23 6AW
- DA13 0RN
- DH9 7SG
- EH8 7QJ
- EX16 6DN
- G45 9RL
- HD9 7DT
- L39 5RL
- LE3 3FX
- MK3 5AZ
- PE28 3EU
- PL14 4PF
- PO16 8TA
- S63 0PH
- SP2 7EH
- YO18 7AW
- YO32 5AA
Wednesday 29 July
- AB23 8UX
- BB6 7JU
- BS30 9YQ
- CM9 4GN
- CT16 1HP
- DA8 3HG
- DE4 2EQ
- DN11 9JQ
- DN18 5FL
- HP1 3QU
- KA19 8AR
- LN6 3QB
- ME7 4DF
- NR15 1YP
- SE26 4RL
- SS7 5LF
- SS9 2JX
- WD3 3LZ
- WS2 7EH
- YO13 9DH
Thursday 30 July
- AL5 5NG
- B9 5DE
- B98 7DL
- BD20 6HN
- BD8 9BS
- CB25 9RS
- CO10 0AN
- CR0 3EQ
- CT9 3LR
- DG16 5FL
- GL51 0DU
- GL5 1RP
- L35 5EB
- LE1 6XQ
- N8 8RH
- NN7 1LY
- RG23 7AD
- RH19 3LH
- TF11 8GB
- WN4 9RE
Friday 31 July
- B78 1SD
- B97 6AL
- DE24 0EU
- EX2 9DS
- FY8 2DU
- HP19 9DQ
- KT12 3DL
- KT2 5UN
- LE10 2RL
- M40 9BZ
- ME4 6JR
- NE10 9AT
- OX2 8LP
- PO12 2HP
- PR6 9JZ
- SA62 5PJ
- SG6 4PS
- SK11 8DA
- SL6 6AB
- WA9 5QB
Saturday 1 August
- PH10 6XA - £250,000
- GU23 7AJ - £125,000
- AB32 6QR - £1,000
- BA5 3NN - £1,000
- CA11 0DH - £1,000
- CM1 4XX - £1,000
- DE4 2JU - £1,000
- DL1 3PP - £1,000
- G72 8XL - £1,000
- IP20 9GF - £1,000
- IP22 1BE - £1,000
- KY15 5BP - £1,000
- L35 5EQ - £1,000
- M33 7BN - £1,000
- NR17 2NN - £1,000
- NR2 3PH - £1,000
- NR8 5DD - £1,000
- S12 4RH - £1,000
- ST10 4NW - £1,000
- TF7 5QD - £1,000
- TQ13 7JF - £1,000
- WV16 6XE - £1,000
