Bird in Hand, Cook Street

Old Tower Inn, Cook St The only known licensee, in 1850/51, was also a silk ribbon weaver.


The proverbial saying "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" is of great antiquity and may have suggested this sign, a popular one since the seventeenth century. Traditionally it was illustrated by a mailed fist on which a falcon was perched.

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1850 - 1851 Edward Watson, silk ribbon weaver
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