The Aldgate Pump - The Truth About "The Pump Of Death."

[@ParaSauralophusRex]

As an American , I find British history endlessly fascinating !❤

[@wildrangerswee1057]

Same

[@brenda6201]

It is part of the victorian era. It is part of history. It should stay.❤️👍

[@JackTheRipperTours]

I agree, Brenda.

[@brenda6201]

I really enjoy your stories, thank you for them all,🥂👍

[@victorcontreras9138]

And thanks to your good coverage on this historic landmark, I will mark it down as a "must visit". I'm glad that cities preserve such sites for people to enjoy it's past history and present attraction. As I see it, to ignore and pass the site without pausing to take in it's beauty of the past at least once, is to not live life to the fullest⚠️

[@JackTheRipperTours]

It is well worth visiting, Victor.

[@bilindalaw-morley161]

The range of fascinating topics you present to us is amazing. As always, it's well researched and written and beautifully narrated.

[@joebykaeby]

Another wonderful video. Is there anything in the city of London whose history you cannot make fascinatingly entertaining?

[@JackTheRipperTours]

That's very kind of you.

[@ruiseartalcorn]

Great presentation! Many thanks :)

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Glad you liked it!

[@itsjohndell]

Excellent as always. Richard. This hits home, tho. My Father, a doctor and virologist, fell in love with England waiting to go over in 1944. One of my earliest memories upon going to London in 1960 was his less than entertaining talk of the epidemics of the City. One stop was the pump. Luckily the rest were the Ripper sites. Much more interesting to a young boy!

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thank you John. Did you take any photos when you toured the Ripper sites?

[@itsjohndell]

@@JackTheRipperTours Yes, probably, but long gone now. I was too young and he wasn't a shutterbug. My Mother was an Anglophobe, her first husband was killed in 1940 as a member of the Eagle Squadron. I'm oddly proud of that though I know nothing else about him. I ended up flying F-111 out of RAF Lakenheath in the 70=80's.

[@professorlewis2749]

Thanks for posting such an interesting history of this Aldgate Pump. Great story! ❤

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@SausageSideways]

Loved the Dr. Wanklin bit 😂

[@tomturner4203]

RIP beautiful WOLF 😢

[@toddamtmann3528]

Such an important member of our fragile ecosystem, intentionally wiped out by ignorance and greed.

[@shaunpenne1840]

"The Pump of Death"..... to quote Rik and Ade, "OOER SOUNDS A BIT RUDE!!" And there's plenty of 'Fnar Fnar' over the poor Doctor's moniker!!😮😮😮😬😬😬 brilliant video, Mister Jones!! 😊😊😊😊😊

[@Contessa6363]

Great video! 😃👍👍♥️

[@boum62]

This is a great post. I listened whilst cooking my breakfast in the office. Great presentation

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Pleased you enjoyed it. Hope you enjoyed breakfast too!

[@divaden47]

Having passed this Pump many times, during my working days in London, and coming from Romford too, I was saddened when I heard of the fate of the beloved Bailiff of Romford. I wish I knew his name. It must be recorded somewhere. Maybe one day! Thanks so much for this glorious piece of history and the origins of Bank draughts and Up the Spout!!

[@earwigismadlove]

Fantasic! We take water so much for granted these days we can forget the impact of something so vital to human life as a pump.

[@richardthorburn1641]

Thanks for another informative vid. I really enjoy the history you provide great work keep them coming.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thanks, will do!

[@vespasian606]

Didn't know that some milestones used the pump as a reference. Using surviving stones to approximate the location obviously gets harder the nearer you get to London itself as they are fewer and fewer. The last flowering for milestones was in 1888 when an act was passed making councils responsible for the upkeep of major roads. These were invariably cast iron and started to become casualties as early as the 1930's when (for example) major imrpovements to the A5 happened. The surviving examples can be hidden in walls (Redbourne), former public drinking fountains (Radlett), front gardens (Rayleigh) or simply buried in hedges (Redbournebury).

[@asheland_numismatics]

Cool video. I love London! 👍

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Me too!

[@lisakaz35]

Cholera was thought of as a poor man's disease but it's solely attributable to drinking contaminated water. And if cholera victims are buried nearby, the cycle continues. But, as you say, many passed by wells like this and could therefore stop for a drink.

[@LittleKitty22]

Was the person who tried to inflate his tires at this pump and threw 20p into it, serious...? Excellent narration! Very interesting. I knew about the Aldgate Pump but not in as much detail. True that it never caused a cholera epidemic. That was the Broadstreet Pump in Soho. Things haven't changed that much in London - the East End is still a crime ridden slum.

[@SirKenchalot]

20p? I should hope it would accept contactless payments by now. Thanks for another great video; perfect delivery and spoken like a true historian, just laying out the facts and letting the reader/listener make of them what they will without patronizing ahistorical judgments and the like. Good day to you.

[@karenlittle3339]

Brilliant,witty and totally amazing,think your posts are amazing

[@TimPerfetto]

You are very welcome! :)

[@mathewlawton8944]

Great video Richard learnt a lot ty

[@JackTheRipperTours]

My pleasure, Mathew, glad you enjoyed it.

[@Victoria-wz9ub]

Excellent information and narration 😊

[@neonpuss1]

Very interesting thanks.

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Westeross]

Love your London history videos…love all of your videos!

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thank you, very kind of you.

[@Roblambertbooks]

Great video, well done 👍

[@peterdixon7734]

I have always been suspicious of the Aldgate Pump and am gratified to find my suspicions confirmed.

[@philipinchina]

Charming. Thank you.

[@Brice23]

Drawing water from a river in Victorian London and having the balls to claim it to be pure. Legendary.

[@filmbuff2777]

Thanks for sharing.

[@shiloh6519]

Well done

[@lesleyannprior8203]

Excellent - thanks for sharing! I agree Richard, how fortunate we in the 21st century are, that thanks to private ownership our rivers are so clean and safe and fresh 🤢😉

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Absolutely!

[@romusromulus]

I wish I could have seen where the reviewer put 20p in to.

[@travisbrunner2922]

I'm sure the review was just a joke...

[@toddamtmann3528]

Exactly what I was thinking! 😆. Now that natural selection has been compromised, true idiots are among us.

[@GeorgHaeder]

I would bet 50 quid that the guy who put the 20p in the pump was from the West End. 😂😂😂

[@WadeRaney-vv5oi]

Oh Wanklin,now I fancy a drink of water,pure of course🤒

[@greatlambrini8722]

Sad thing is that sewage IS still dumped into rivers and seas. We never learn.

[@1700iDiGuy]

Bet that well still has water in it also

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

I wouldn't touch it, lest we start another epidemic

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

This was really interesting! I've never been to London/England, but if I ever go I will certainly visit the Aldgate Pump! Richard, do you think that Jack the Ripper would recognize the pump today?

[@JackTheRipperTours]

If he knew it back then, he would certainly recognise it today.

[@Mr.56Goldtop]

@@JackTheRipperTours It was in his neighborhood, no doubt he saw it, maybe even used it! Maybe even to clean off his knife and wash his hands! 😯. 😆

[@perlefisker]

Now I've seen street after street of London on this channel, I'm really at a loss as to understand what all the fuss is about wanting to live there. Why would anyone live there? It looks absolutely depressing!

[@addie_is_me]

"Stop it now." Busted. LOL

[@groomys67]

That's what they used to call my farts.

[@AustinD333]

Long Live the Aldgate Pump

[@davidcoleman2796]

Jack maybe had a drink from it in 1888 . 😂

[@asmith3601]

Professor Moriarty's lesser protege - Dr Wanklin.

[@Stan_o7]

Dr. Wanklin 😏

[@davesmith7432]

It’s much safer to drink cheap gin

[@gowdsake7103]

I still dont see what the bailiff said wrong

[@virginiawolfe2581]

Opened his mouth at the wrong time.

[@cuttysupe7749]

Dr Wanklin 😂😂😂😂

[@thefullmetalmaskedduo6083]

How can it not have caused an epidemic? they were literally drinking corpse juice from graveyards, that would have led to a serious E-coli or botulism outbreak.

[@Shnick]

Yeah… all we have in the USA is a giant ball of yarn. No one knows how it got there either.

[@drbigmdftnu]

Great politician joke

[@JackTheRipperTours]

Thanks, Michael. I couldn't resist it!

[@elsbet1656]

Yay thanks!!!

[@julielaidlee]

Wait, why did they hang the man? What did he do wrong?

[@virginiawolfe2581]

Opened his mouth at the wrong time

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Likely treason