He Turns a 100 In The House Where He Was Born
He just scored one century, and he remains in the same three-bedroom terrace house in Leicester.
Ernie Rollason was born here a century ago.
He was a metal sheet worker and never moved not married, as none of those activities appealed to him. "I never wanted to marry or move so that's why I've stayed here as long as I have," he said, to itv. "It's been a bit rowdy with friends and family coming over and I've never had as many cards.
Friend Sue Tebbutt said: "Ernie is a lovely man and really loves watching sport on the television. It was nice, because he does not have any family, that we could hold a party for him complete with a card from the Queen."
Born in the same house at Orson Street, Leicester, he was one of five children. After his parents died, he lived in the house with older brother Harry, who died a few months before he reached his own 100th birthday.
Ernie Rollason's 100th birthday was celebrated by watching Joe Root's centurial knock at the Trent Bridge Ashes test on Thursday. However, later he admitted: "Ernie said: "To be honest I have not had a chance to watch it because I have had so many visitors, according to leicestermercury.
Is he happy to be the country's oldest bachelor? Ernie said, "I've never really thought that but I must be." Perhaps that's why he's reached a 100 years.
For 45 years, he had been with the clock makers Gent and Co in Leicester. Only for a short stint, he stopped to join the Second World War services, handling the amphibious landing craft.
His "main passions in life" are Leicester City, watching Andy Murray and fishing, he said.
Mr Rollason said: "I have had a good life, it's been quiet and that's the way I like it."
