Comments on: Charles Dickens at The Eagle https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:19:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Vicky https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/#comment-20217 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:19:24 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=17022#comment-20217 Wonderful posters

Up and down the City road,
In and out The Eagle
That’s the way the money goes
Pop goes the weasel

One explanation of ‘Pop goes the weasel’ refers to pawning your coat. ‘Pop’ = ‘pawn’ and ‘Weasel’ is cockney rhyming slang ‘weasel and stoat’ = ‘coat’.

For further info, maps and a picture of the present day Eagle listen/watch this video and read the explanation of the nursery rhyme underneath it. It’s very good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opr_7f0Z0os&feature=player_embedded

]]> By: teapot https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/#comment-3321 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:24:42 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=17022#comment-3321 I should like to see the grand action between two Ships of War, exchanging Red Hot Balls in a tremendous attack of cannonading and firing! Ah, this all looks like so much fun. I want to go out in 1828, too.

]]> By: Don McNulty https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/#comment-3045 Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:58:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=17022#comment-3045 I would of loved to see Mr. Williams leaping. I like leaping, I do.

]]> By: Anne Forster https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/#comment-3008 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 19:52:39 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=17022#comment-3008 As somebody else is writing as ‘Anne’ I shall now use my surname!

Couldn’t believe the dates on these bills, another glimpse into a far off world.

]]> By: Valerie Fairbrass https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/#comment-3001 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:38:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=17022#comment-3001 Wonderful collection. I am particularly interested in printers of playbills and see that Balne features regularly in these. Recently saw a Feb 1850 playbill from the Britannia on the ELTA Project website with contemporary legible annotations reading ‘This bill is not half so powerful as the big blue poster that tempted us to go’

]]> By: Herry Lawford https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/#comment-2999 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:57:25 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=17022#comment-2999 Heroic use of typefaces and design on the playbills!; wonderful that you have persuaded the Bishopsgate Institute to allow them to be shown here.

And a good reminder of how Dickens can conjure up a scene!

A great pleasure, as usual!

]]> By: Anne https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/25/charles-dickens-at-the-eagle/#comment-2996 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:24:59 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=17022#comment-2996 Depuis que je me suis abonnée à votre site, je me régale de chaque article et conseille votre site à tous mes amis anglophones. Merci pour votre superbe travail.

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