Arcadia Works, City Road
Expansion of the business continued and, in 1907, the first Arcadia Works was built on City Road EC1, the street mentioned in the old nursery rhyme “Up and down the City Road, in and out the Eagle, that’s the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel”.
More developments were made in the pipe field, including a cartridge case. Other brands were introduced before the First World War including Fireball, Golden Clipper, Red Route Mixture and Life Ray.
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Famous quotes containing the words arcadia, city and/or road:
“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.
Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)
“The city mouse eats bread and cheese;—
The garden mouse eats what he can;
We will not grudge him seeds and stocks,
Poor little timid furry man.”
—Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)
“Ev’ry road I walk along I’ve walked along with you.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)