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This being a recovery site I would not normally post pictures of pubs but at 6.30 am it is not open. This one is interesting in as much as it is mentioned in an old nursery rhythm. I'm sure all my fellow Brits will have heard of it and maybe others too. It is called Pop Goes the Weasel. The first verse is very well known but there are two others, it goes
Half a pound of tuppenny rice,
Half a pound of treacle.
That's the way the money goes,
Pop! goes the weasel.
Every night when I go out,
The monkey's on the table,
Take a stick and knock it off,
Pop! goes the weasel.
Up and down the City road,
In and out the Eagle,
That’s the way the money goes,
Pop goes the weasel.
"Weasel" is abbreviated cockney rythming slang for weasel and stoat - coat and to "pop" is to pawn so the last verse refers to the habit of pawning your coat to get money for booze. Kinda relevant eh?
This is the Eagle in question although strictly speaking it isn't as the nursery rythm is somewhat older - this one was rebuilt in 1901. The City road is about 100 metres/yards to the right.