Folk of the Footbridge

Tim Harries' cartoons relate to the City Foot Bridge Matthew Harding writes; The story posted earlier about the bizarre appearance of a giant line of inflatable washing above the footbridge in summer 2010 reminded me of a South Wales Argus cartoon strip by one of FoNMAG's friends, Tim Harries. I'd thought Tim's cartoon showed Neptune rising from The Usk to unpeg his enormous washing but you can see here that I remembered wrongly. Many thanks to Tim for kindly going to the trouble of searching through his archive to find this for us today and for letting us show it to you along with another great strip that he drew in response to Olivier Roustan's daredevil high wire walk, also for 2010's Big Splash festival. Both of Tim's cartoons were drawn for his regular 'Never Say Dai' strip that made over 4,500 appearances in The South Wales Argus between 1998 and 2016. More from Tim on his website here: www.harriescartoons.co.uk 1. The cartoon was based on the

David 'Bomber' Pearce This is the statue of Newport boxer, David Pearce which is situated very near the footbridge. As the statue's plaque states, David trained in the area by running up and down the steps of the Transporter Bridge. He was Heavyweight Champion of Great Britain between 1983 and 1985. Sculpture by Laury Dizengremel, photographs by Rachael and Matthew Harding.