BACK BOX

Senior Contributor

A couple of months ago, I mentioned one of my ‘guilty secret’ collecting interests; namely Corgi kits of the early 1960s. To recap, these were a range of accessories for use with cars and included a Shell-BP garage and petrol pumps, motel chalet, telephone kiosks and a circus elephant in cage.

My favourites, though, were three ‘Silverstone’ buildings; a block of three pits, a Press Box that sat above them and a timekeeper’s box or club house. All these were based on buildings opposite the main stands at