Fraudulent Aldgate Pump

Aldgate pump located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street. People thought that the water had medicinal purposes and collected bottles on Sundays. They praised the well water for being "bright, sparkling, and cool, and of an agreeable taste". In fact qualities were later found to be derived from decaying organic matter from adjoining graveyards and the leaching of calcium from the bones of the dead in many new cemeteries in north London

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