deluged with requests for help frc
residents all over the country ang
over similar problems. They arer
‘ interested in becoming a kind
5; John Tyrne double act, popping t
 at enquiries in all manner of protest
5 But they are happy to pass on the
ll guidelines for successful protest.
1 Q “First you must have 2
t elected committee — otherwise Opp:
1‘ nents will say you aren’t represent:
 rive.
 Q “Then youfll need a print:
I on the committee for the paperworl
' H or at least know of one sympathet
1 to the cause.
‘ Q “You’ll need some funds — ‘ii
I raised money from door to door an
i streetcollections. But play it straigl
A; and get permission fiorn the polio
I
3*. We’ve never added up what we’t
L spent personally, but our individu:
’phone bills have been £30-40
i month! .
 Q “You must begin by gettin
l your M.P. on your side - but keep
I politics out of it. We’ve made snr
I that the A2 Group has representel
all Parties -~ it’s important that you’:
l speaking as concerned residents o
ll constituents, not following a Part;
l line. Anything you do should pn
 pressure on  to work on you;
i behalf.
t Q “Be positive: never take no fo:
11 an answer —- and never let up, other-
‘ wise support will fizzle out.”
 Lewis and Purchese admit to 2
; sense of unreality now that the ls-“E
; years of efiort are finished. “When
1; I walked into Bridge the day 
ll trafic was switched away, it was 
 Alice and the other side of the look.-
‘ ing glass,” says Purchese. Lewis inst
" it pfelt completely fiat. “I could.n’t
 believe that we’d actually done it.
I Even a fortnight later my wife said,
‘Yot1’re still planning that wretched
 road’. And it was true .. . .” =
 *'k***
it Five months after the by-pass
 opening, Bridge is a difierent place.
 It may not yet resemble that sepia-
: . .
J tinted Twenties’ postcard, but the
7* transformation is tangble. Next to
the church the Roses’ cottage ‘shines
| with new Snowcem. I-Iawkins’s news-
agents has its long promised face-lift.
So have the two hairdressers’ shops
and a scattering of little cottages
closest to the narrow section of the B
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village. B E
Andgwas it just a diplomatic ges-
body’ s part that Bridge

an award for the E