OK then. Here's the result so far.
The 1st problem was to find a plastic tube of the correct circumerance to fit the 68mm downpipe. There were none on the shelves of my local Asda with whatever would have been in them.
I did have a tube of salt from them that was just a bit too wide so I cut the tube ends off, then cut straight down, top to bottom. That left me with a flexible plastic sheet. I rolled it into the end of the 68mm downpipe to mark the edges to cut to size. That done I stuck the edges together an made the tube. To hold it reasonably firm I placed cross pieces at the bottom superglued in place. I also superglued the edge inner seams with gel superglue so that it went into the join.
I had a sheet of fine fish safe mesh so I cut a bit of that to shape and superglued that inside the tube and above the cross pieces. That gave sufficient strength.
The next bit was more time consuming. I had to do a 180 degree cut down the 68 mm pipe to take out a semicircle. I couldn't rush it as I hadn't enough pipe to do it again if I got it wrong.
Then when the section was free I superglued - gel again, the filter tube to the inside of the crescent section of pipe. There's no need for it to be floating free, as it were, as it's still easily accessible by just opening the downpipe section.
That was the next bit. I couldn't find any suitable hinge to fix one end of the cross section so that it could swing open and shut. So I just used Gorilla duct tape to join them; only at one edge naturally or it wouldn't open otherwise.
With that in place I cut out various bits of filter sponge, foam etc and placed them into the filter tube.
I haven't any activated charcoal yet but as soon as I get some it'll be put in at the bottom of the tube filter material.
I haven't a latch of any sort fitted yet to keep the filter attachment tight to to the existing downpipe but that'll be no big problem. I will probably use an elastic band between a screw on each section to pull it tightly together. As it was a DIY trial sort of process the cutting is a bit rough and ready but it'll work well neverthless. After all, water falls straight down so the small gaps won't be a problem
Take a looksee.