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Aldgate Pump

The pump of death, at the point where the City ends and the East End begins.

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Photo by Matt Brown from London, England, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A well stood here from the Middle Ages and the stone pump is from 1876, with a brass wolf's head for a spout, said to mark the last wolf shot in the City. In that year several hundred people died after drinking from it: the water came from underground streams that ran through the new cemeteries to the north, and the Board of Works switched the supply to the New River Company's mains. The phrase east of Aldgate Pump has meant the East End ever since, and the pump still stands on its island with the City behind it and Whitechapel in front.

Where
Aldgate High Street at Fenchurch Street, EC3N 1AB
Nearest station
Aldgate · 2 min walk

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