Aldgate Pump is a historic former water pump located at the junction where Aldgate High Street meets Fenchurch Street and Leadenhall Street in the City of London. The pump is considered to be the symbolic start point of the East End of London.
The Aldgate Pump, looking east towards Whitechapel prior to August 2019 restoration.
The wolf's head on Aldgate Pump
The pump in 1874
The pump has been at its current site since 1876
Aldgate was a gate in the former defensive wall around the City of London.
Print of the Aldgate, around 1609
Yorkist defenders sally from Aldgate, 1471
Aldgate House, Bethnal Green, around 1808
Aldgate Pump, at the junction of Aldgate, Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street