Diary of a Decorator: The Story of FWA. Builders and decorators to the royal household, and probably the world's most successful painting co (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781909020313)

Colin Douglas-Fairhurst was only four years old in the war years when his father set up a pioneering spray-painting business, and the smell of paint and the noise of the spraying equipment pervaded his young life. In 1957, after a sojourn living and working in New Zealand, he returned to join the family business. Thanks to Colin's foresight and energy, the father-and-son company soon gained a series of large public sector contracts, including Windsor Castle and later, Buckingham Palace. By the 1970s, now happily married with a young family, Colin was controlling a flourishing group of companies in the decorating and building field. Thanks to careful planning, in 2003 he was able to pass the business into good hands and begin an active and adventurous retirement with his wife Ann.