https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/31/at-aldgate-pump-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:17:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/31/at-aldgate-pump-i/#comment-1618567 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:17:36 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200646#comment-1618567 This is fascinating and shows how far we’ve come with public sanitation (and how far we may fall again!)
I had no idea of the history of the pump.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2024/08/31/at-aldgate-pump-i/#comment-1618200 Sat, 31 Aug 2024 09:22:10 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=200646#comment-1618200 The idea of a dead pigeon in the water tank is enough to send me queasy whenever the water ‘tastes a bit funny’ so I imagine the sales of Evian and Perrier water shot up around Aldgate after the pump scare. (I know, I know…)

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