[59a] On this lady and some of the tavern-concert singers of the time there is a rather breezy article in The Town for August 18, 1838.
[59b] Now No. 128, Pentonville Road. Till about the seventies it had a garden space beside it, facing the road. Another place in the City Road, the Green Gate Tavern (now No. 220), preserved almost up to the nineties a small garden with its boxes and ‘a few old trees that still, in spite of fog and smoke, struggled into life as the summer came round, and formed a pleasant contrast to the dingy neighbourhood by which they were surrounded’ (H. Fancourt in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, May 9, 1891). In the early fifties the Green Gate had a concert-room and a stage. A rough woodcut in the Paul Pry journal for 1854 shows a theatrical performance going on. Tall-hatted gentlemen are seated in the stalls, but in the pit or ‘promenade’ behind the audience is of a coster character. There is a water-colour drawing of the Green Gate by T. H. Sheperd, 1852, in the Crace Collection, Catalogue, p. 607, No. 4.
[60] Glindon was famous for his ‘Biddy the Basket-woman’ and his ‘Literary Dustman.’
[61a] It was generally open on Sundays for ‘promenading.’
[61b] Miss M. A. Atkinson and others.
[62a] H. Barton Baker, London Stage, ii., p. 30.
[62b] Westland Marston, Our Recent Actors, ii., p. 261. Mr. Sala says that off the stage he was shy and sensitive.
[63] His real name was Benjamin Oliver.
[64a] This was on the site of an older building in the Eagle grounds, known at one time as the Olympic Pavilion, and opened in 1840.
[64b] He is said (Baker, London Stage) to have given £21,000 for the Eagle, but I believe the sum paid was nearer £14,000.