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n. (context 1811 English) A draught on the pump at Aldgate; a bad bill of exchange, drawn on persons who have no effects of the drawer.
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Aldgate was the eastern-most gateway through the London Wall leading from the City of London to Whitechapel and the East End of London. It gives its name to a City ward bounded by White Kennet Street in the north and Crutched Friars in the south, taking in Leadenhall and Fenchurch Streets, which remain principal thoroughfares through the City, each splitting from the short street named Aldgate that connects to Aldgate High Street. The road is situated east north-east of Charing Cross.
John Cass's school, where a plaque records the former placement of London Wall, is sited on the north side of Aldgate (the street).
Aldgate may refer to:
- Aldgate, one of the city gates of the City of London and a road near the site of Aldgate. Now a district
- Aldgate tube station in the City of London
- Aldgate East tube station in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
- Aldgate, Rutland a village in the County of Rutland, England
- Aldgate, South Australia, a town in the Adelaide Hills in Australia
- Aldgate, East Fremantle, a State Register of Heritage Place in East Fremantle, Western Australia
Usage examples of "aldgate".
As we approached Aldgate, we were entering the financial district of the City, the area where I had spent so much of my working life.
Fortunately I had enough money in the studio for a taxi and I found one on the rank outside Aldgate East Station.
He was, in fact, best pleased to be known as plain Titus Oates, and would chortle heartily over his chances of tracing a pedigree back to the notorious inventor of the Popish Plot who was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate and from Newgate to Tyburn some three hundred years ago.
Tell him I was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate, and from Newgate to Tyburn.
From Aldgate to the Brompton Road, locked lines of grumbling traffic edged along their routes in rackety crawls of a few feet at a time, and subsided again into jammed immobility with a ceaseless belching of blue smoke and mephitic fumesan unforgettable procession of tribute to the singular genius of the authorities who had organized enormous gangs of workmen to dig up roads and excavate new and superfluous Underground stations at every point where their activities could set a capstone on the paralytic confusion.
I met in a pub out at Aldgate landed me on the front door, so to speak.
It was also observed that the plague decreased sooner in those parishes after they had been visited to the full than it did in the parishes of Bishopsgate, Shoreditch, Aldgate, Whitechappel, Stepney, and others.
Lachley wandered, by chance, directly into her path just in time to see events unfold in Aldgate High Street.
From the east wing, through state rooms far bigger than the inside of Great Aldgate Station to narrow stairways which contained the inner workings of this great palace, which was at least as complex as the largest factory.
By eight thirty, she had passed out on a footway on Aldgate High Street, and Police Constable George Simmons picked her up and moved her off to the side.