Good to see that, finally, that terrible fencing around the entrance to the Roman Baths shop has been dismantled.
It wasn’t exactly the best advertisement for the Baths and Pump Room in terms of tourist appreciation.
The council hasn’t said much about why the fencing was there. That is until now.
It seems there has been concern about the condition of some of the vaulting below the road where some temporary props have now been installed to add extra support.
Movement detectors have been placed on the propping and if there is any movement the barriers will be reinstated for public safety.
The props will stay in place until Historic England and other bodies work out how a permanent strengthening solution will work.
This will require all sorts of careful conservation considerations, and It may well take months to resolve.
If the tourists can’t appreciate that the city isn’t entirely here for their benefit and that the occasional inconvenience of maintenance/building works will stop things looking as pretty as they might like, then they can go somewhere else. And you can stop kvetching about it and all. Would you rather they’d let hundreds of people walk right over faulty vaults?