The age of steam!

Saturday saw the kids and I at the Abbey Pumping Station - built by the Victorians to solve the problem of sewage, in response to a higher than average death rate amongst local children, and now a museum. Since it went out of service fifty years ago it has served as a museum of technology for Leicester and the shiny National Space Centre was built next to it.

On Saturday the giant beam engines which pumped the sewage uphill out of Leicester were running again. It was a reminder of the good that science can do - when harnessed by progressive rather than reactionary ideas.