This week, with JOHN FAIRBROTHER, headteacher at Ightenhill Primary School, Burnley, who retires this summer after 20 years in the job.

MEMORY: Playing out with my friends in and around the village of Summerseat (where I was born) in the long, dry days of summer. Whatever happened to them?

HOME: I lived with my mum and dad in Summerseat. I was an only child.

HOLIDAY: We spent many family holidays in Guernsey which, in those early car-less days, always involved a long train journey to Weymouth and a ferry.

SCHOOL: Rowlands Methodist Primary School in Summerseat. Happy days, apart from the time I filled all the boys' toilets with snow. They were outside toilets, of course!

HERO: Apart from my dad, my hero was Biggles! I was an avid reader and read all Captain WE Johns' books time and again -- often under the covers by torchlight after "lights out".

RECORD: Anything by Elvis.

JOB: My dad was a teacher and it never occurred to me to want to do anything else. My first job was at Peel Brow Primary in Ramsbottom, then two schools in Bacup and finally as head at Ightenhill.

CAR: It was a 21st birthday present from my mum and dad -- a pale blue Mini, WBN 687. How I loved it!

LESSON: To my children, Andrew and Peter -- to spend a bit less than your income!