{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. {66} B. O. Conquest covered this space with a permanent platform. {67} SOME SINGERS AND ACTORS AT THE EAGLE.—Miss Tunstall sang in 1838, etc. Sims Reeves sang for a fortnight only—in 1839—at the garden concerts, under the name of Johnson. Deulin ( = Isaac Dowling, _d._ 1860) made a reputation here as harlequin. Thérèse Cushine (_d._ 1856), the dancer, appeared first at the (old) Garrick and afterwards at the Eagle. She married Milano, the harlequin and ballet-master, who was at the Eagle _circa_ 1847. W. T. Moncrieff was one of the dramatic writers. E. L. Blanchard’s _Arcadia_ was produced here in 1841. In this operetta Miss Forde, a charming ballad-singer, appeared as Phyllis. Harriet Coveney, from _circa_ 1840; Miss Carlotta Leclercq and other members of the Leclercq family; Harry Boleno, the pantomimist; Miss C. Parkes, columbine, 1851; T. Mead, the actor, 1859; Herbert Campbell (_d._ 1904) in pantomime in the seventies; Baldwin, baritone singer (from 1833) was chorus-master. Charles Montgomery in 1851 succeeded Campbell (the Sadler’s Wells actor) as stage-manager. The musical director (1838–1840) was Harroway. C. Sloman, a comic singer and improvisatore, well known at the London gardens and tavern concerts, was concert director in 1860. Oscar Barrett was musical director, 1877.