Annie Scott was arguably one of the best celebrities to emerge from Ayrshire, however accidental her fame was.

In 2009, her grandson Tommy Ga-Ken Wan began filming a series of videos which he uploaded to YouTube, purely to showcase his hilarious relative to friends.

But 'Grannie Annie's' unique charm - and fondness for swearing - won her a following that even professional photographer Tommy could not have predicted.

Along with Annie's closest family and friends, her fan base were also bereft after it emerged that the cheeky 70-year-old had passed away from cancer in November.

Tommy, 30, says it was her unforgettable sense of humour that he loved most.

"She had great stories, just about whatever had happened to her that day," said Tommy.

"Whatever you happened to be talking about, she'd have a great wee line about it that would make you laugh.

"I think a lot of people recognised their own grannies in her, and the fact she was so typically Scottish is why people liked her.

"Everybody said 'This is just like my gran' or 'I wish this was like my gran'."

Tommy's videos, which have amassed over three million views since the channel's inception, highlight Grannie Annie's musings on cookery, drugs and her grandson's new shoes.

Tommy did have a (deliberate) tendency to film too close, which usually resulted in Annie's favourite refrain 'Get it oot ma face!' - or variations thereof.

The most popular video, viewed over 200,000 times, is a compilation of the mischievous grandson terrorising the beleaguered pensioner.

Warning: This video contains sweary words, and lots of them.

"The thing about her is the anger she shows is never real anger," said Tommy. "If I thought I would be upsetting her I wouldn't do it.

"One minute she could be shouting and swearing and angry and the next she'd be laughing away.

"People recognised her in the street - even the checkout girl at the supermarket would ask 'are you Grannie Annie?'

"She would tell me someone in Homebase recognised her today and wasn't that terrible - but you could tell she really loved it.

"She was a bit embarrassed when her respectable friends saw it - people she knows that she wouldn't swear in front of."

But bashfulness was not often felt by Grannie Annie. Those closest to her knew her as a strong-willed woman who didn't care much for what other people thought, sticking by her family during the toughest of times.

"She was very understanding, " said Tommy. "My dad is Chinese and my mum married him in the 1980s when he was one of the first Chinese people in Ayr.

"She wasn't fussed about what people would think about that. I came out as gay to her when I was 14 and it didn't bother her one bit.

"I remember when I was 11 sitting watching the news when George Michael came out. I remember somebody saying 'Oh what a waste' and Grannie Annie said 'Well you never know what you're own will turn out like' - maybe she knew already.

"I remember another conversation where someone was talking about bringing girlfriends home and she said 'Tom! Girls? I don't think so.'"

Annie was also a charitable woman with a "heart of gold" and volunteered for the Scottish Ambulance Service until she lost her ability to drive through cancer.

Tommy said: "She drove people who otherwise couldn't get to hospital, so she'd pick them up from wherever they were and drive to the Beatson in Glasgow or Crosshouse.

"She loved driving, and in her last months she spoke about how much she missed it.

"When they examined her they found the cancer was widespread and by that point untreatable.

"At the beginning she put on a brave face but I think towards her final weeks I think she wanted to go, she had had enough."

After Annie passed away on November 7, hundreds of strangers posted her best-known catch phrases online in a flood of tributes - a reaction that gave comfort to her grieving family.

Tommy added: "I find it so bizarre, people mourning en-masse for this wee old grannie, this ordinary woman that they never knew.

"I knew she was well-liked but I didn't expect that kind of response, it was really heart-warming. I wish she could have seen it."