Cat and Fiddle Inn

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Sign for the (former) Cat and Fiddle Inn
Lombard Street, City of London
London, September 2006

“By the 1800s the extravagant signs were all but gone from Lombard Street. In 1902, Frederick George Hilton Price, a banker on Lombard, and the author of ‘The Signs of Old Lombard Street’, helped resurrect 23 of the signs to correspond with the coronation of King Edward VII. Among them were a grasshopper, the family heraldic symbol of a Thomas Grisham who founded the Royal exchange, an anchor, a cat playing a fiddle, and a crown above a head. They're the only four that remain today.” (Signs of Old Lombard Street, Atlas Obscura)