Letter: iPads v more seats for visitors to the Quarry

Letter: Just prior to our premier tourist attraction, the Shrewsbury Flower Show, I took my wife in a wheelchair and my 93-year-old mother-in-law to see The Quarry.

We strolled along Victoria Quay and the Sabrina boat had a wonderful display of hanging baskets.

Having just missed the Sabrina boat, we decided to wait for the next one and looked for the availability of somewhere to sit.

I was amazed that we were unable to locate any seats between Welsh Bridge and Porthill Bridge on the Victoria Avenue side of the river.

On the Frankwell side of the river there were six seats with no-one sitting on them. It was brought to my attention that some of these seats were kindly donated by ex-Frankwell residents.

Does the council not have any money for seats along our premier tourist location? It has money to spend £12,500 on iPads for councillors, but no seats for the elderly.

I would advise councillors to visit Chester where there is an abundance of seats along their river location.

Wake up Shrewsbury.

Colin Jones

Shrewsbury