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This Triptych was made using two information boards near the pump - The photo on the right was one i took a couple of years ago. This old drinking water pump is situated in Aldgate at the junction with Fenchurch street in the City of London. It is where all distances East of London are measured from. The brass wolf's head acted as the water outlet.This location was also the point where the last Wolf was shot, East of the city. The spring water of the Aldgate Pump was appreciated by many for its abundant health-giving mineral salts, until – in an unexpectedly horrific development – it was discovered that the calcium in the water had leached from human bones.The water supply was switched to mains supply in 1876, when the water began to taste strange and was found to contain liquid human remains, which had seeped into the underground stream from local cemeteries. Several hundred people died in the resultant Aldgate Pump Epidemic as a result of drinking polluted water . <a href="http://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/" rel="nofollow">Text edited using this web page</a> |
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Author | Loco Steve from Bromley , UK |
Camera location | 51° 30′ 47.8″ N, 0° 04′ 40.95″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.513277; -0.078041 |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Loco Steve at https://flickr.com/photos/36989019@N08/37905922881. It was reviewed on 4 February 2021 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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