this week, with EDNA BOLTON, 79, from Age Concern, Blackburn.

MEMORY: Smacking a little boy who lived nearby because we'd fallen out! Then I ran home and told my family I wanted to go to bed. His mother was coming round to our house and she wasn't very happy.

HOME: Pansy Street South in Accrington. I lived there with my mum, dad, sister and brother. It was a happy home but before the war my father found it difficult to get work. My mum had to fetch the three of us up off the means test.

SCHOOL: St Mary Magdalen's in Accrington. I was a tomboy. I wanted to be outside playing, rather than sitting in lessons. I had scarlet fever when I was five and my brother and sister got to go and stay with my auntie and uncle's in Blackburn while I recovered. I wanted to go too but instead, as soon as I was better, they sent me back to school.

HOLIDAY: In 1940 we went to Morecambe. I really enjoyed it -- I'd never seen the sea before. Now I've been all over the place -- Russia, New York, Disneyland.

JOB: I worked at Jas Broadley's printing place at Clayton-le-Moors on the machines. We used to hang the paper up to let it stretch. I really enjoyed it there.

RECORD: I'll Be Your Sweetheart. I've no idea who sang it!