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Another pic of the pump, date unknown

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

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[โ€“] jam12705 24 points 1 week 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.

[โ€“] espentan 6 points 1 week ago

I'm surprised it was still judged to have "agreeable taste". I suppose the bar was significantly lower, back when.

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