Done it !!!! I now have the menu I want which is a very simple plain link accross the top of the page which incorprorates the breadcrumbs and links to fixed html pages.
If anyone else is reading this and wondering how I did it, I did the following.
I copied all the desired links into the menu manager. For fixed html pages I used "custom link" and then for the php bits such as breadcrumbs image title ect I selected " function" and then copied the php line used on the album.php. ( I had to figure out what each line did with a bit of trial and error )
I added the following line to album.php and image.pho which causes the custom menu to display:-
<h3>
<?php printCustomMenu("jonny-menu"); ?>
</h3>
I had called my custome menu jonny-menu and I had chosen h3 ( heading 3 ) as a suitable font size for the menu text.
As I am useless at coding, I did it one bit at a time with lots of trying very small changes to see what happened. I built up my links in menu manager which at first had them all doubled up. I then edited out the extra unwanted versions from album.php and image.php until all that was left was the custom menu above.
I used fretzls css suggestion above by simply adding it to the bottom of the common.css file and it worked perfectly putting all my menu items in a nice long line.