You May Remember This Photograph,

it is of Steve Bell, 55,

photograph Triangle News we featured him last Friday highlighting the state of Bromley's, (the borough where we live) roads,

 

images Tim W News Shopper, apparently he is not alone in highlighting the problems motorists are have whilst driving in the borough, going back some time Tim Webb, who lives in the area, started the campaign after seeing another man doing a similar thing on Facebook in Brightlingsea, Essex, Tim told the News Shopper: “Sometimes you have to step outside of the normal comfort zone in the way of doing things, and I think I just got a little voice inside telling me this seems to be a way forward, I never meant to start a campaign at first, it wasn’t until there a pothole appeared in a road in Orpington High Street in January which was quite substantial that I started paying particular attention to the issue, the contractors put a cone in it because it’s a busy road for traffic, I complained to some of the local councillors and another cone was put in there a few days later and we ended up with three cones in this pothole and I said well, rather than put three cones why don’t they just come and repair it?”

Tim explained that once he started putting the toys and props into the potholes and re-reporting them to FixMyStreet - action began to be taken to repair the potholes after their newfound attention, He gets the toys and items for his pothole shenanigans from charity shops and car boot sales – often on the hunt for specific items in order to make his tiny art pieces a reality, 

Tim added: “At the moment I'm after a yellow dump truck but I don't want to pay a fortune for one, I also desperately want to get hold of a Playmobil rock man Playmobil rock band because I want to do Led Zeppelin, Whole Lot of Love.”

as you might imagine there have a been a few comments! a Council spokesperson said, “In common with councils across the country, the situation with potholes is serious, with the winter weather causing unprecedented damage to the country’s roads, including in our Borough. The extreme low temperatures, even prior to Christmas and the torrential rain have caused significant damage, with potholes resulting", for the full article have a look here.