Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on September 29, 2003 at 11:29:43 from 195.93.32.8 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Lanehead & water supplies posted by Peter Ceresole on September 28, 2003 at 09:28:21:
Older town houses in Britain generally have cold water tanks in the rood space; this is because when municipal water supplies were developed, in the nineteenth century, water pressure in the mains was not constant; water was supplied for a couple of hours per day, only, to each area of a town in turn. The disadvantages of this for fire fighting led to constant supplies.