Just proves that you can't polish a turd. This post reminds me of my funniest Sid James memory involving a re-build. After moving here in the mid eighties, and before becoming a green, I visited SJP on the night they formally opened the new cowshed. No seats but basically the old cowshed with a new roof I think.
Before the game started they persuaded Bobby Robson who was in the area to formally open the stand, and he was duly handed the microphone from the middle of the pitch. Halfway through his address, a local taxi company's comms cut in to the sound system, asking George to travel to 43 Park Rd to collect a Mrs Henderson. George responded with something like "bollocks, I'm on the wrong side of town", to cheers from the 2000 odd spectators listening in. BR took it in good spirit, and made it a very memorable opening.