Hello Fly,
I'm very grateful for that memory jogging blog; I wrote it. It was quite a while ago and I'd forgotten it completely. That was a nice update from Pete, also, regarding the (much) later epics of the bandstand.
The 'British Racing Green' did come out a lot like 'Yuk Mould Fungus'. Such are the joys of the internet (especially for those of us who aren't much cop with it.)
Many thanks.