II
+ II = IIV
Apparently the Roman engineers who built the local water supply - the Raw Dykes -
for the Leicester baths got their sums wrong.For some reason they miscalculated the relative heights so that the
water supply came out too low.
That meant that the planned supply was pretty
useless and water had to be brought up hill to the baths by buckets - in one of
Leicester's first job creation schemes. |
All
Uphill
This puts the closure of St Margaret's Baths, our only city centre
pool (by the previous Labour city council) into some kind of historical perspective.
Two thousand years later there are still people stood in almost the exact same
geographical position without any water.The failure of the concillium of the Roman civitas to organise the
water supply was merely the first recorded in a long series of Leicester Council cock-ups.
It's all uphill from here. |
