Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop! Goes the weasel.
Site: The Eagle, City Road (2 memorials)
N1, Shepherdess Place, The Eagle pub
Up and down the City Road
In and out the Eagle
That's the way the money goes
Pop! Goes the weasel.
N1, Shepherdess Place, The Eagle pub
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Eagle Tavern - song
Spitlefields Life has an excellent write-up of the 19th century entertainment...
World Wide Words provides the following explanation: Some of the references a...
This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
Eagle Tavern - song
The Eagle Tavern, Grecian theatre, pleasure grounds, Grecian saloon & Oly...
A splendid and unusual memorial.
These large chunks of old masonry are in the small courtyard to the west of the church tower. They were discovered in 1921 across the r...
The 1745 Association (who ought to know) writes: "The plaque on the side of the church says it was twenty-one but that may not be quite a...
The medieval church of St Peter, Westcheap (now Cheapside) used to stand on this corner facing Cheapside. The blue information board give...
Carved at the top of the gravestone is a portrait of Anrep himself. The image below, on the left shows a few mosaic tesserae and the spec...
The theatre opened on 27th December, 1906 as The Hicks Theatre. It was built and named for the actor-manager and playwright Seymour Hicks. It came under new management in 1909 and was renamed as Th...
Leslie Howard, 1893 - 1943, actor and film director, lived here. English Heritage
The Pickwick Bicycle Club was founded here on 22 June 1870. At that first meeting, it was decided that the Downs Hotel should be the general rendezvous for bi-weekly excursions on Wednesdays and Sa...
Sculptor and lettering artist, following his father's David's path. Other London work includes the unusual 'Seven ages of man' sited in what must be one of Central London's grimmest locations at B...
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
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