Comments on: The Pump of Death https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tony Wetjen https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1732657 Wed, 04 Jun 2025 17:21:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1732657 I’ve often wondered about the conditions that prevailed in 1850s East London
when my great grandparents lived there! A great article, much appreciated.

Tony Wetjen.

]]> By: Brian Dawson https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1572884 Wed, 15 May 2024 03:43:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1572884 I very interesting piece of history indeed. And to think: here we are some 150 years later and Thames Water are building a reputation in supplying the same foul water . . .

]]> By: Filipe Baruzzi https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1503380 Sun, 05 Mar 2023 13:41:12 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1503380 Great history! Glad to know that it had been restored in 2019!

]]> By: Pamela Jones https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1503339 Sat, 04 Mar 2023 23:00:18 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1503339 Very entertaining. Much more interesting over the pond!!

]]> By: Max Reeves https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1262803 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 21:46:29 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1262803 Does anyone know what underground stream would have fed the pump origionally?

Great Story thanks

]]> By: Niall McDevitt https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1260789 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 12:55:58 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1260789 Lovely piece. You mention Aldgate Well. It’s believed Chaucer collected his daily water from there when living in Aldgate – literally in the gate – in the 1370s-80s.

]]> By: Ron Bunting https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1260765 Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:25:00 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1260765 And now the lord mayor is putting in more drinking fountains in an effort to reduce plastic bottle use in London….

]]> By: Shawdian https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-1152376 Fri, 02 Jun 2017 06:18:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-1152376 Poor old pump! Was only put there to serve and do good, makes one almost feel sorry for it :)) Is this one of the most photographed pumps in London..

]]> By: Maryellen Johnston https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-35885 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:17:21 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-35885 Totally amazing – and what a sense of horror it invokes!

]]> By: elisa rathje https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/03/09/the-pump-of-death/#comment-8921 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:54:35 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=25465#comment-8921 fascinating, what a gruesome story. it would be wonderful to see it working again. i love the images.

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