MOHAMMED Ali's boxing glove, a silver Princess Diana medal and a natty leather cap worn by pop icon Madonna on the cover of Italian Vogue are among Rossendale's best kept secrets.

Marjorie Trouesdale has been a collector of show business memorabilia since she was 10, but she doesn't keep anything on show.

Marjorie, 53, of Helmshore Road, Helmshore, said: "I get much more pleasure from the stuff that I have knowing that they are there and knowing I can look at them."

The latest addition to the former financial adviser's collection is the leather cap which Madonna wore on the cover of Italian Vogue. It cost her £400 from Rawtenstall's memorabilia shop Pride Records.

Marjorie, who retired due to a bad knee, saved up in order to buy it.

She said: "I'll never wear it! I will add it to my collection of other items which I don't keep in the house. They are just available to look at when I want."

Her collection fascination started when she was just ten and William Roache -- Coronation Street's Ken Barlow -- took her autograph album to the soap opera's set and got it signed by all the original cast members when he lived in Rossendale.

Marjorie said: "Unfortunately one of my brothers destroyed it. I reckon it would have been worth about £25,000 now."

Her current collection is kept much safer and includes a lot of Spice Girls memorabilia including tapes, CDs, videos and unopened swap cards.

Her daughter Jakki, named after world champion racing driver Jackie Stewart, bought her the autographed Mohammed Ali glove, also from Pride Records. She also has two boxes full of about 30 old dolls and two tins full of coins including one that looks like a Dubloon from a sunken Spanish battle ship, a one penny token from 1843 and an old penny which is very pitted and has no date.

In her Princess Diana collection she has collectors plates, books and the solid silver coin she bought for £4 from a car boot sale.

Marjorie said: "I think of my collection as assets. I have been offered money for the Mohammed Ali glove but I would not part with it.

"When my daughter bought it for me my jaw dropped he was the greatest boxer there has ever been."