SOUVENIRS A LUCRATIVE LINE

4 August 2005

Now that we are starting what is known in the media as the silly season, I would like to suggest a couple of ideas for recouping the expense of re-siting the ugly/lovely Slip Bridge.

Cut the bridge into souvenir-sized slices (preferably before the sticky paint goes on). Display them in a see-through container together with a photograph of the original and a potted history. They would sell like hot cakes to all lovers of the structure. How could they resist owning such a piece of memorabilia at, say, £20 a piece?

Organise a mammoth auction to sell off, stone by stone, the abutments. Again, the lovers of the bridge would flock in their thousands to add a little piece of history to their garden rockeries.If the right spin doctor was appointed, who knows, the scheme might even make money.

Pat Richards, Bendrick Drive, Southgate, Swansea