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Given the supposed origins of the song, I wonder if you found anywhere one can still "pop" (pawn) a "weasel" (& stoat - coat) on the City Road.
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I enjoyed the "when will that be" predictions in the original oranges and lemons series.
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I suspect the easiest way of buying a muffin in London is with a McDonalds breakfast.
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Well worth going inside the church of St Magnus - it holds a fantastic model of the medieval London Bridge.
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As a child I was told the weasel referred to the iron used to iron clothes; I've no idea why.
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There are lines marked across Tooley Street near the back of Evans Cycles which I'm told mark the line of old London Bridge. An odd little yard not part of the station may be related.
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St Magnus's normal opening hours are Sunday 10am-1pm and Tue-Fri 10am-4pm, but alas I managed to turn up during High Mass.
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I prefer the Heimskringla’s saga of Norwegian King Olaf (later St Olave) pulling down the bridge in about 1014.
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The grandson of the founder of Sainsbury's took "of Drury Lane" as part of his title when he was ennobled in the 1960s.
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Yes, I have also heard the tale of London Bridge being pulled down by the Norwegians. It was of course not the medieval stone bridge, but an earlier wooden bridge.
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I always thought a good place for a new footbridge over the Thames would be where St. Magnus the Martyr is. This would thus incorporate the last remaining bit of the old bridge. Of course it couldn't be like the original but there could be similarities. Big problem with southern end l know but just an idea. It would be another way of linking London Bridge to the monument and perhaps the Tower.
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To avoid phrasing it as a redundant rhetorical question, I will venture the opinion that half a pound of tuppenny rice would cost a penny.
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My Grandmother's family lived off the north end of Shepherdess walk from the late 19th century. I like to think that it was her local, when my Gt Grandmother used to send her with the jug to be filled with stout - but there was probably a pub on every corner back then!
I think it was the Oranges & Lemons post that led me to your blog. |
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In our house the muffin man rhyme ends "Who lives on Bertie Road?". A change made by our four year old once he found out that the number 6 bus that starts at Drury Lane, terminates at Bertie Road (way out in Willesden). Such bus-related, rhyme-changing anoracking at an early age is pleasing.
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My late mother-in-law's father was a London docker when times were very hard, and the "Pledge Office" (pawn shop) as the M-I-L called it was frequently visited. Her understanding of Pop goes the Weasel was that although one couldn't pawn one's outer coat as it could stop one working, the inner, or waist-coat was allowed, this being the Weasel.
It was the only way the family could survive until another ship came in to be unloaded. |
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Sarah - YES!!
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Pop goes the weasel - it's not weasel and stoat = coat; it's whistle and flute = suit.
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Has this post really been marinading since 2004 and the original Oranges & Lemons post? Love it.
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