Thank you all for your positive comments
That's fantastic, Elaine! Excellent! Victorian municipal architecture at its best!
How you did the steps would be interesting to know.
The wood covered base is made up of two semi-circles of floor from the palace covered in wood print paper, but the actual steps are cake display boards.
The cake boards were covered in silver foil and I thought the acrylic paint I used would stick - it did partly, but after two coats some bits just weren't covering and I had to peel it all off - I got in a terrible mess doing this!!
However the card underneath gave it a good texture for stone. I just painted the uprights dark grey and the steps terracotta then added the lines for the mortar to seperate the tiles.
I got the idea from a photo of a bandstand I found online, I'm very pleased with the result.
Elaine