Editing Pub (section)

===Saloon or lounge===
[[File:Eagle City Road London 2005.jpg|thumb|The Eagle, [[City Road]], [[London Borough of Islington|Islington]], London, displaying the nursery rhyme line about the pub's predecessor<ref name=weasel>{{cite web |url=http://www.rhymes.org.uk/a116a-pop-goes-the-weasel.htm |title=Pop Goes the Weasel |website=Nursery Rhymes Lyrics and Origins|access-date= 23 July 2019}}</ref>]]
[[File:The Clock, Birmingham - geograph.org.uk - 1468943.jpg|thumb|The Clock, Birmingham – an example of a [[Tudor Revival architecture|mock Tudor]] pub, now demolished to make way for the expansion of Birmingham Airport]] 
{{See also|Book cafe|Piano bar|Oyster saloon}}

By the end of the 18th century, a new room in the pub was established: the saloon. Beer establishments had always provided entertainment of some sort—singing, gaming or sport. Balls Pond Road in Islington was named after an establishment run by a Mr. Ball that had a [[duck pond]] at the rear, where drinkers could, for a fee, go out and take a potshot at the ducks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Time Gentlemen Please! |url=http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-312.htm |access-date=12 May 2013 |author=SilkTork |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130128145136/http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-312.htm |archive-date=28 January 2013 }}</ref> More common, however, was a card room or a [[billiards]] room. The saloon was a room where, for an admission fee or a higher price of drinks, singing, dancing, drama, or comedy was performed and drinks would be served at the table. From this came the popular [[music hall]] form of entertainment—a show consisting of a variety of acts.

A most famous London saloon was the Grecian Saloon in the Eagle, [[City Road]], referenced by name in the 18th-century [[nursery rhyme]]: "Up and down the City Road / In and out the Eagle / That's the way the money goes / [[Pop goes the weasel]]."<ref name=EAG/><ref name=weasel/> This meant that the customer had spent all his money at the Eagle, and needed to [[pawnbroker|pawn]] his "weasel" to get some more.<ref name=EAG>David Kemp (1992) [https://books.google.com/books?id=S7XyMa-n5_YC&pg=PA158 The pleasures and treasures of Britain: a discerning traveller's companion] p.158. Dundurn Press Ltd., 1992</ref> The meaning of the "weasel" is unclear but the two most likely definitions are: a flat iron used for finishing clothing; or [[rhyming slang]] for a coat (''weasel and stoat'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-312.htm |title=Time Gentlemen Please! |publisher=Ratebeer.com |access-date=26 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220072325/http://ratebeer.com/Beer-News/Article-312.htm |archive-date=20 February 2009 }}</ref>

A few pubs have stage performances such as serious drama, stand-up comedy, musical bands, [[cabaret]] or [[striptease]]; however, [[juke box]]es, [[karaoke]] and other forms of pre-recorded music have otherwise replaced the musical tradition of a piano or guitar and singing.