Comments on: At The Eagle Tavern

By: Tracey Dunn

Tracey Dunn — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 06:36:31 +0000

Wow! I was born round the corner in Sherborne St N1 1961…When I was a toddler my grandad used to bounce me on his knee and sing the nursery rhyme..In and out the city Rd…his name was POP too! Would have loved to work here…

By: Keir

Keir — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 16:04:05 +0000

‘Pop’, in this context, means making a temporary loan of a valuable possession to a pawn shop to obtain some ready cash. Also as in ‘Ill just pop down the road’.
Weasel is short for ‘weasel and stoat’ which is London rhyming slang for coat. So, short of money, you would ‘pop your coat”

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 06:47:02 +0000

The current owners of The Eagle are singularly disinterested in the history of the area sadly. My attempts to gather information on the history of the pub and area were unsuccessful. They look down their noses at working class people (well, white ones anyway) and local history.

By: Stephen Barker

Stephen Barker — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 19:40:46 +0000

As a collector of examples of jobbing printing from the 19th Century I am envious of the posters. What it must have been like to have been in the crowd at The Grecian Rooms is hard to imagine.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 28 Sep 2017 09:13:47 +0000

Our chum, Michael O’Connor, was raised there.
His Mum and Dad ran the Eagle and he would sneak down and nick crisps.
Thirty years later his costume design won an Oscar, a hat tip to the history listed above

By: Chris F

Chris F — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 21:13:59 +0000

I love it when you post content like this… I end up spending hours trying to research the names of the performers… It’s amazing what the Internet throws up. Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to step back in time to view some of these shows… Dinner at a chop house followed by a couple of hours at the Grecian Saloon and then finish the night off at a local tavern with a few beers and a gin chaser…. Brilliant…

By: Paul Blanchard

Paul Blanchard — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:12:08 +0000

Delightful posters in profusion and a really great essay. Thank You.

By: Greg Tingey

Greg Tingey — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 07:01:42 +0000

Does the Weasel still go “pop” though?

By: Caroline Bottomley

Caroline Bottomley — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 06:20:42 +0000

The artwork on Miss Hengler’s playbill is wonderful, ditto for the 12 fiery steeds just above

By: Jim McDermott

Jim McDermott — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 02:14:25 +0000

One suspects the audience were in two minds regarding the cancellation of the singing act that had gone down with dysentery. The entertainment value was potentially enormous, but …