[2] From Angel, City Road runs roughly south-east and downhill past the City Road Basin of Regent's Canal and Moorfields Eye Hospital, after which it bears closer to south, and has a junction with Old Street at the former Old Street Roundabout.

The City Road and The Eagle tavern are mentioned in an additional verse written for the nursery rhyme Pop Goes the Weasel by 1856, when it was quoted in a performance at the Theatre Royal: Up and down the City Road In and out the Eagle That's the way the money goes Pop!

[3] The Eagle was a well-known public house on City Road, which was rebuilt as a music hall on 1825, was later renamed the Grecian Theatre, became a Salvation Army centre in 1884, and was demolished in 1901.

[4] Its site is now occupied by Eagle Dwellings, a housing complex administered by the Peabody Trust.

[5] A replacement Eagle pub, opened in 1901, was erected in Shepherdess Walk, on the opposite (north-east) side of City Road: this still stands, and the rhyme is painted on a plaque on its façade.