The Bedford Row water pump

On a grand side street in Holborn can be found an equally grand looking water pump.In the 1740s, this short road was known as Jockeys Fields, which seems a bit odd considering the lack of fields in the area by then, but the name has stuck to a next door street to this day. By 1800 it had changed name to Warwick Place, and then sometime in the 1960s was renamed as an extension of next door Bedford Row.
The pump, which dates to around 1840 has changed a bit as well. It used to be flush with the st