This week, with PETE DONNELLY, 60, former headteacher of St John Fisher and Thomas More RC High School, Colne, who raised over £2,000 for charity in a sponsored bike ride.

MEMORY: A black and white rabbit owned by Mrs Hollyoak, our next door neighbour. I must have been two or three.

HOLIDAY: A family holiday in Talacre in North Wales. We had to go by bus from Liverpool. We stayed in a mobile home for about a week. I was about six and I remember the beach.

HOME: A Post Office rented house in Edge Lane, Liverpool. The Post Office used the front room as an office and we lived in the back room. We weren't allowed into the front room.

SCHOOL: St Sebastian's Primary School, in Liverpool. I loved it. I'm told I came home and said: "There's some funny doors in our school called corridors."

HEADTEACHER: Mr Peters. He was a rather large man and was really nice.

RECORD: Save the Last Dance for Me by The Drifters. I loved it. I played it over and over again.

JOB: When I was a student I worked on the buses in Liverpool during the summer holidays. It was great,

CAR: A Ford Anglia, which we bought in 1971. It was a D-reg, about five years old. The first time we used it I gave it a bit of a service and emptied all the dirty water out of the radiator. We then drove down to London and the radiator just leaked empty. It turned out I had emptied out all the Radweld. It was fairly reliable after that.

CHILD: Andrew, who was born in 1968 in Chorley Hospital. My wife had been in there for a few days and I visited her each night. This particular night, I didn't realise she'd had the baby during the day. They didn't contact you in those days. It was a big shock!

TEACHING POST: Cardinal Alan Grammar School for Boys in 1964. It was a very hard year. I was a first year teacher, on probation, and I didn't get particularly good classes.