Royal Grecian Theatre

The Eagle, best known for its association with the nursery rhyme Pop goes the weasel survives (albeit rebuilt), but the theatre does not.

The Shepherd and Shepherdess tavern had been built at the site sometime prior to 1745, in what was then a rural part of the parish of Shoreditch.

[1] Marie Lloyd, known as the Queen of the Music Hall, worked at the Eagle as a waitress at the age of 15.

[3] Her father John who was a waiter there also secured her an unpaid role as a table singer at the venue.

The pub features in Charles Dickens Sketches by Boz, when the Eagle is visited by Jemima Evans and Samuel Wilkins.

The Eagle Tavern in 1841.
The Eagle, just off the City Road , Shoreditch, London, displaying the nursery rhyme line about the pub's predecessor [ 1 ]
"I wonder if I shall ever be back there!" - George Conquest looking across at the Eagle Tavern, also known as the Grecian Theatre, bought as Salvation Army premises in 1882. William Booth stands in the doorway - Alfred Bryan in Entr'acte (1883)