Aldgate Pump

During the 20th century this was removed, but was recreated by the Bottega Prata workshop in Bologna, Italy, during its restoration by the Heritage of London Trust, unveiled in September 2019.

[7] These qualities were later found to be derived from decaying organic matter from adjoining graveyards,[7] and the leaching of calcium from the bones of the dead in many new cemeteries in north London through which the stream ran from Hampstead.

[9] As the City of London developed, it is thought to have been taken down and moved a short distance to the west, to its current location in 1876, as a result of road widening.

[4] The line of the former eastern walls and gates of the City are taken as the usual start point of the East End, but the pump lies just inside the site of the former Aldgate.

[10] It is also used in two phrases which seem to hark back to the epidemic: Charles Dickens refers to the pump in The Uncommercial Traveller, published in 1860: "My day's no-business beckoning me to the East End of London.