This week, with PAT NICHOLSON, 66, owner of Jamieson Bakery, Gregson Lane, Hoghton, which was set up by her great-grandmother in 1898. . .

MEMORY: Being carried on my father's shoulders across the small plot of land that separated our home from the bakery. I would be about three or four at the time and it had snowed so deep dad had dug a channel to get to the bakery.

HOLIDAY: We never had a family holiday until I was 10 and we had a caravan in Morecambe. We've branched out a bit since then -- my husband and I sponsor a little girl in Thailand and we've been out there to visit her. It makes a caravan in Morecambe seem not so exciting!

SCHOOL: St Joseph's in Brindle. If the weather was bad my mother would take my brother and I to school, which was a mile-and-a-half away, in a large bread van. I believe my grandfather used to deliver bread on a horse and cart until we got our first van in 1920. It was an ex-World War One American ambulance.

HOME: My first home with my husband was 260 Gregson Lane, Hoghton, next to the bakery. It was the house where my great grandmother lived when she first started to make bread for the people who worked in the factories, which was how the business started. When my husband came out of the forces we moved in there.

JOB: When I left school I worked in an accounts office. That didn't last long, because my mum asked me to leave and keep house while she was tied up in the bakery. I didn't start working full time in the bakery until my husband came out of the forces. He was a marine commander for two years. When he came out of the marines he joined me in the bakery and worked there until he retired.