hilarity in the bath, testify their enjoyment of the tepid fluid.” The Pool was still frequented in 1850,[82] but at a later time was built over. Its name is kept locally in remembrance by Peerless Street, the second main turning on the left of the City Road, just beyond Old Street, in coming from the City. This street was formerly called Peerless Row, and formed the northern boundary of the ground laid out by Kemp.[83] [Maitland’s _Hist. of London_, i. p. 84, ff.; Dodsley’s _London_, “Peerless Pool”; Noorthouck’s _London_, p. 756, ff.; Trusler’s _London Adviser_ (1786), p. 124; Hone’s _Every Day Book_, i. p. 970, ff.; Pennant’s _London_, p. 268; Wheatley’s _London P. and P._ iii. s.v.; newspaper cuttings, &c., W. Coll.] VIEWS. 1. Two woodcuts (pleasure bath and fish-pond) from drawings, _circ._ 1826, by John Cleghorn in Hone’s _Every Day Book_ (cited above). 2. View of Peerless Pool Bath and Gardens in 1848; coloured drawing by Read. Crace, _Cat._, p. 608, No. 9. 3. The Pleasure Bath, Peerless Pool. An advertisement bill with woodcut of the bath, surrounded by trees and shrubberies, and a plan of the vicinity (1846?), W. Coll.; cp. Crace, _Cat._, p. 608, No. 8. THE SHEPHERD AND SHEPHERDESS, CITY ROAD The Shepherd and Shepherdess ale-house stood on or near the site afterwards occupied by the well-known Eagle Tavern in the City Road and Shepherdess Walk. It was built at some time before 1745, and its gardens were frequented in the last century by visitors, who regaled themselves with cream, cakes and furmity. Invalids sometimes stayed at the Shepherd and Shepherdess[84] to benefit by the pure air of the neighbourhood. The City Road (opened in 1761) was cut through the meadow-grounds that surrounded the inn. The place gradually lost its rural isolation, but it is found enumerated among the tea-gardens resorted to by Londoners of the “middling classes” in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The Shepherd and Shepherdess appears to have been pulled down about 1825, at which time Thomas Rouse built on or near its site the Eagle Tavern (rebuilt 1838) which formed the nucleus of the famous Eagle establishment with its Grecian saloon and theatre, its gardens and dancing pavilion. The tavern, grounds and theatre were purchased by “General” Booth in 1882, and have since been occupied by the Salvation Army.[85] [Larwood and Hotten, _Signboards_, 352, 353; _Picture of London_, 1802 and 1823; Walford, ii. 227, 274.] THE SPRING GARDEN, STEPNEY This Spring Garden was situated a little distance to the north of the Mile End Road and its eastern side abutted on what is now Globe Road.