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http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/eagle_tavern_old_print.jpgThe Eagle (Shepherdess Walk, N1) is known to generations of children from the nursery rhyme ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’: ‘Up and down the City Road/ In and out the Eagle’.http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/charles_green_200.jpgPortrait of Charles Green by Hilaire Ledru, 1835, via Wikipedia.On Monday 4 April 1825, the aeronaut Charles Green ascended in a balloon from the gardens at the Eagle. After much trouble, he got airborne at 5:30 pm and drifted away south. He returned to the Eagle for another ascent on a later occasion, this time seated on the back of a ‘very small Shetland pony’ (Stamford Mercury, 01/08/1828).
Famous as the site of a theatre and other entertainments (http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/12/in-out-the-eagle-tavern/), The Eagle*was the subject of one of Charles Dickens’s*Sketches by Boz (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/882) (1833-1836) entitled ‘Miss Evans and The Eagle':
[The]*waiters were rushing to and fro with glasses of negus, and glasses of brandy-and-water, and bottles of ale, and bottles of stout; and ginger-beer was going off in one place, and practical jokes were going on in another; and people were crowding to the door of the Rotunda; and in short the whole scene was, as Miss J’mima Ivins, inspired by the novelty, or the shrub, or both, observed—‘one of dazzling excitement.’
The present building dates from around 1900 (http://www.pubology.co.uk/pubs/2245.html).
Not to be confused with The Eagle, Farringdon, ‘the original gastropub’. There will be more on balloon ascents in a future post on The Star & Garter, Richmond.*Main image: ‘The Eagle Tavern Pleasure Gardens, from an old print’, from Dickensian Inns & Taverns by B.W. Matz, 1922, via Archive.org (https://archive.org/stream/dickensianinnsta00matziala#page/n0/mode/2up).
Notable Pubs #1: The Eagle Tavern, London (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/05/notable-pubs-1-the-eagle-tavern-london/) from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
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http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/eagle_tavern_old_print.jpgThe Eagle (Shepherdess Walk, N1) is known to generations of children from the nursery rhyme ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’: ‘Up and down the City Road/ In and out the Eagle’.http://boakandbailey.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/charles_green_200.jpgPortrait of Charles Green by Hilaire Ledru, 1835, via Wikipedia.On Monday 4 April 1825, the aeronaut Charles Green ascended in a balloon from the gardens at the Eagle. After much trouble, he got airborne at 5:30 pm and drifted away south. He returned to the Eagle for another ascent on a later occasion, this time seated on the back of a ‘very small Shetland pony’ (Stamford Mercury, 01/08/1828).
Famous as the site of a theatre and other entertainments (http://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/11/12/in-out-the-eagle-tavern/), The Eagle*was the subject of one of Charles Dickens’s*Sketches by Boz (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/882) (1833-1836) entitled ‘Miss Evans and The Eagle':
[The]*waiters were rushing to and fro with glasses of negus, and glasses of brandy-and-water, and bottles of ale, and bottles of stout; and ginger-beer was going off in one place, and practical jokes were going on in another; and people were crowding to the door of the Rotunda; and in short the whole scene was, as Miss J’mima Ivins, inspired by the novelty, or the shrub, or both, observed—‘one of dazzling excitement.’
The present building dates from around 1900 (http://www.pubology.co.uk/pubs/2245.html).
Not to be confused with The Eagle, Farringdon, ‘the original gastropub’. There will be more on balloon ascents in a future post on The Star & Garter, Richmond.*Main image: ‘The Eagle Tavern Pleasure Gardens, from an old print’, from Dickensian Inns & Taverns by B.W. Matz, 1922, via Archive.org (https://archive.org/stream/dickensianinnsta00matziala#page/n0/mode/2up).
Notable Pubs #1: The Eagle Tavern, London (http://boakandbailey.com/2015/05/notable-pubs-1-the-eagle-tavern-london/) from Boak & Bailey's Beer Blog - Over-thinking beer, pubs and the meaning of craft since 2007 (http://boakandbailey.com)
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