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Continued austerity or have cracks started to appear?

I am a great lover of parks and the ingredients that make up a great park. My fascination with the bandstand is undoubted as well as the...

A Public Parks Inquiry or Public Cop out??

So, after waiting months, an incredible amount of submissions on the future of parks submitted to DCLG, and then the anticipation of...

Cassiobury Park bandstand returns .... at last

One of the remnants of the great lost estates of the United Kingdom, Cassiobury Park is now the largest park in Hertfordshire, and the...

One year on.....

I thought it would a good time to update on progress as I think it has been about just over a year I established the CIC. Its been a...

Putting my own house in order

Lots of restorations underway this year which is always good. Having had a long chat with my good friend Dominic Liptrot from Lost Art...

Forgotten but found..... what a remarkable story

Now this is a wonderful story. You hear about warehouses or old hangars discovered full of classic cars worth a fortune, well this isn't...

Famous in the Last Century

Famous in the last century is the title of a rather poor Status Quo album (who I am listening to as I write this blog) but it suddenly...

Restoration men!!

A busy year so far. And so it continues. I did a talk to Steeple Claydon WI on Bandstands - History, Decline & Revival and what a great...

Where are we now?

Well since the launch of www.bookabandstand.com, the response has been amazing. Lots of coverage and it continues. Friends and colleagues...

All publicity is good publicity

A good week for publicity for bandstands - The Times early in the week and this weekend - The Daily Mail Online...

Welcome to BookaBandstand.com

Well here it is. I have been thinking about this for a while now and how to do this and if I had the time or the energy.... but hey it...

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