ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case: that of a memorial dedicated to a deceased television character which occupies a section of Mermaid Quay in Cardiff Bay. The exact site, upon which the memorial stands, itself a filming location, is a wooden wall featuring an access door for the various services that run under Mermaid Quay. The chapter examines the interplay between official' history and a counter-history drawn from fiction as expressed through a memorial. The diegetic counter-history is so supportive of the image embraced by the official history that the authorities have begun eliding them together for reasons both pragmatic and potentially playful. The counter-history derived from fact, of the cultural environment now lost, seems to troubling have no place at this most peculiar memorial. The problem for Mermaid Quay, however, is that Torchwood moved to the US, meaning that there is little opportunity for increasing fan tourism through new filming.
