The Eagle Tavern, Grecian theatre, pleasure grounds, Grecian saloon & Olympic theatre, stood here, 1825 - 1899. Here Marie Lloyd, music hall artiste, made her first public performance in 1885.
N1, Shepherdess Place, The Eagle pub
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Eagle Tavern - plaque
Spitlefields Life has an excellent write-up of the 19th century entertainment...
Music hall artiste. Born Matilda Alice Victoria Wood at 36 Plumber Street, Ho...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Eagle Tavern - plaque
Listed Grade II The text includes: "The councillors' entrance has a cantilevered concrete canopy balcony originally designed for counci...
This plaque was given by the Royal Navy in memory of Captain Ralph Douglas Binney CBE Royal Navy who, on 8 December 1944 died from injuri...
This was the site of the blacking factory where Dickens worked, aged 12 or 13, when his father was put in the Marshalsea prison for debt....
The building behind is the former Air Ministry. We thank Jamie Davis for finding this link to the British Pathe news film of the unveili...
The Theatre and Film Guild of Great Britain and America comes under the umbrella of the Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
Also known as John Michael or Johannes Michel or Jan Michiel Rysbrach or Rijsbrack. Born Antwerp (which probably explains the confusion). Sculptor of busts and funerary monuments of many prominent...
This was originally a well-designed and substantial monument. Both sides of the base are convex and Wikipedia have a photo, November 2007...
Lost on the Franklin Expedition to find the North West Passage. See Franklin's page for more details.
First mentioned in the Domesday Book, but the origins of this Palace are probably much earlier. It was given to Edward II in 1305, and was a royal residence until the 16th century. In 1933 the leas...
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