Post by Roger FordAm I the only one here who has actually gone "up and down the City
Road and in and out of the Eagle*"?
'Pop! Goes the weasel' lyrics date from the 1850's.
The Eagle was not a pub (tavern) then, but a 'music hall' (theatre).
Post by Roger Ford(*The tavern near City Road London N1 that still exists to this day
tho it has mostly been rebuilt since Victorian times)
In 2018, what The Eagle looked like, and the site's colorful history from c.1802:
https://knowyourlondon.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/eagle-tavern-city-road/
(In 1884 the building and site [then the raucous boozy Eagle music hall,
in a rough area of London] were purchased by General Booth for a center
for the Salvation Army [they claimed to have 'captured' and 'occupied'
a den of iniquity]. However, the building was demolished in 1901 and
today's pub was erected the same year.)
It has a website:
https://www.theeaglehoxton.co.uk/
The now *gentrified* tavern, https://www.theeaglehoxton.co.uk/food
currently closed for Covid, has the address:
2 Shepherdess Walk, London N1 7LB
Telephone: 020 7250 0507
In 2011, a review:
https://www.goodbeergoodpubs.co.uk/pub-reviews/london-north/old-street/eagle/
(the 'Old Fountain' at the eastern end of City Road got a better rating)
Geoff