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Aldgate pump located at the junction where Aldgate meets Fenchurch Street

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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Annual inspection of the Middlesex Industrial School, established at Feltham to make

Annual inspection of the Middlesex Industrial School, established at Feltham to make provision for the care, reformation, and education of juvenile offenders. Any boy of age between 7 and 14 who is convicted of any criminal offence may be committed to this school for a period of not less than one year and not more than three. The number of inmates averages about 560 boys. 1865 Date: 1865

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The fallen statue of Seostris, Memphis, Egypt, circa 1880s. Date: circa 1880s

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