‘No special secret to long life’

John Tinniswood stated he was fairly lively as a teenager

PA Media John Tinniswood, with glasses and wearing a blue tank top and blue, black and white checked shirt, sits in a grey chair smiling at the camera. A framed certificate sits on a shelf to his left which shows the Guinness World Records age achievement. — John Tinniswood stated he was fairly lively as a teenager

The world’s oldest residing man has declared he has no “particular secrets and techniques” to cross on about his longevity as he celebrated turning 112.

John Tinniswood, who was born in Liverpool on 26 August 1912, advised the Guinness World Records he had “no concept in any respect” why he had lived so lengthy.

The lifelong Liverpool fan, who lives at a care dwelling in Southport, turned the world’s oldest residing man in April when 114-year-old Juan Vicente Pérez Mora died.

He stated he had been “fairly lively as a teenager” and did “quite a lot of strolling”, however believed he was “no completely different” to anybody else, including: “You both dwell lengthy otherwise you dwell brief and you may’t do a lot about it.”

Mr Tinniswood, who was born the 12 months the Titanic sank, stated he can be taking turning 112 “in my stride like anything”.

“Why I’ve lived that lengthy, I do not know in any respect,” he stated. “I can’t consider any particular secrets and techniques I’ve.

“I used to be fairly lively as a teenager, I did quite a lot of strolling… whether or not that had one thing to do with it, I don’t know.

“But to me, I’m no completely different. No completely different in any respect.”

Mrs Tinniswood met his spouse, Blodwen, at a dance in Liverpool and so they married in 1942

Family photo John and Blodwen Tinniswood on their wedding day, with him in glasses and a double-breasted dark suit and her with a fascinator and a pale two-piece suit, holding a silver horseshoe — Mrs Tinniswood met his spouse, Blodwen, at a dance in Liverpool and so they married in 1942

Mr Tinniswood was born 20 years after his favorite soccer membership Liverpool was based and has lived by all however two of the Reds’ 66 prime flight trophies, having missed the primary two league titles in 1901 and 1906.

He was two on the outbreak of World War One and had simply celebrated his twenty seventh birthday when World War Two started.

He served in an administrative position for the Army Pay Corps, finding stranded troopers and organising meals provides, and is now the world’s oldest surviving male WWII veteran.

He met his spouse, Blodwen, at a dance in Liverpool, and so they married in 1942.

Their daughter Susan was born in 1943 and the couple loved 44 years collectively earlier than Mrs Tinniswood died in 1986.

After WWII, he labored as an accountant for Shell and BP earlier than retiring in 1972.

Mr Tinniswood has lived by each world wars

PA Media A woman from the Guinness World Records hands a certificate in a frame to John Tinniswood, who is sitting in a grey armchair. Both are smiling at the camera. — Mr Tinniswood has lived by each world wars

He stated that past consuming a portion of fish and chips each Friday, he didn’t comply with any specific regime.

“I eat what they offer me and so does all people else,” he stated. “I don’t have a particular weight loss program.”

Since turning 100 in 2012, he has obtained an annual birthday card from the monarch – first from the late Queen Elizabeth II, who was his junior by virtually 14 years, after which from King Charles III.

Asked whether or not he thought the world had modified a lot since his childhood, he stated it was “no higher in my view, or hardly any higher, than it was then”.

“Probably in some locations it’s, however somewhere else it’s worse,” he added.

The oldest man ever was Jiroemon Kimura from Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years 54 days and died in 2013.

The world’s oldest residing girl, and oldest residing individual, is Japan’s 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka.