Comments on: At The Eagle Tavern https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/20/at-the-eagle-tavern-i/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Tue, 20 May 2025 12:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Lynne Perrella https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/20/at-the-eagle-tavern-i/#comment-1725525 Tue, 20 May 2025 12:06:13 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203350#comment-1725525 As we say here in New YAWK — “So, what’s not to like???”. I chuckled to read the bombastic
articles, I marveled at the stunning array of vintage typography and fonts, I appreciated the
chock-a-block layouts of the broadsides, I hummed along with my best “Sergeant Pepper” imitation, I struggled to imagine The Giraffe Girl and The Shortest Man, and I made urgent preparations to attend ALL the performances. GA, shall we sally forth? I’m ready when you are.

A splendid time is guaranteed for all.

]]> By: Jo N https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/20/at-the-eagle-tavern-i/#comment-1725441 Tue, 20 May 2025 08:05:02 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203350#comment-1725441 A lot of Beatles fans don’t really rate Being For The Benefit of Mr Kite because its lyrics are directly lifted from a Victorian play bill, but I challenge anyone who knows it not to have it spiralling in their ears after reading these! Both are wonderfully evocative of a world almost completely gone.

]]> By: Hetty Startup https://spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/20/at-the-eagle-tavern-i/#comment-1725412 Tue, 20 May 2025 06:46:44 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=203350#comment-1725412 These amazing playbills take me to a realm caught somewhere between the novel Tipping the Velvet, and the little cardboard proscenium arch of my Pollock’s toy theater to the lines from the Beatles’ album on Sargeant Pepper “….for the benefit of Mr. Kite/There will be a show tonight/on trampoline….” and I did live on Shepherdess Walk briefly in the mid 1980s.

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