This wasn’t so much a stroll as a hurtle down Memory Lane. In 1966, Gordon Murray asked classical guitar virtuoso Freddie Phillips to provide music and songs for his children’s series Camberwick Green.

Those of us of a certain age grew up with the series and Murray’s follow-ups, Trumpton and Chigley, narrated by the great Brian Cant. There is a Sussex link, too, as it is thought inspiration for the name Camberwick Green stems from Wivelsfield Green, along with Plumpton (Trumpton) and Chailey (Chigley).

In keeping with the animation method, this was rather a stop-start affair as the show seemed a tad under-rehearsed, as the complicated structure of Phillips’s scores belied the simplicity of the subject matter.

As guitarists Adrian Oxaal and Stephen Wrigley battled bravely at the back and percussionist Tom Arnold kept the Trumpton clock ticking along, narrator and vocalist Glen Richardson interspersed tales of Windy Miller and the world’s most famous fire crew (Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub) with some great one-liners.

Rightly so, Richardson didn’t take it too seriously. After all, it was a room full of middle-aged people watching middle-aged musicians play songs written for six-year-olds. Tunes such as An Army Truck transported me back to what my children term “the old days” – when “literally” everything was in black and white.

I was hoping they would enjoy the lovable old songs but times have changed. “I’m bored,” said my six-year-old. I had to keep him quiet by letting him play on my iPhone. No wonder we get nostalgic.