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Aldgate Pump, London, UK, 1927 (lemmy.world)

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Another pic of the pump, date unknown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldgate_Pump

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Tasty

Served by one of London's many underground streams, the water was praised for being "bright, sparkling, and cool, and of an agreeable taste". These 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 through which the stream ran from Hampstead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

On its relocation in 1876, the New River Company changed the supplies to mains water.

It doesn’t pump at all nowadays

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