Thanks everyone for your advice and I am sorry that I haven't replied earlier to your helpful comments but I was waiting to see how everything panned out and then was away for a few days. I spoke to John, Stuart's father, and they gave me a much more reasonable quote to fit pads, discs and refurbished calipers. So I went back to my regular mechanic, who is a good honest and reliable bloke, and told him that I wanted the car back and he said "Give me thirty minutes to stick everything back" and then twenty minutes later he 'phoned to say that he had left the calipers overnight in penetrating fluid and they had freed up even though he couldn't shift them the day before. So he is now refettling and refitting them along with new discs and pads, etc. I don't use the car much these days and only for local journeys so I am happy with that.
Thanks again for all your advice.
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