Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Its sign may have been a copy of the three cranes or storks of the Poulters
And as the tavern was on the street known as “Poultry” one can see why this would have been appropriate. It’s likely that they would have been selling chickens, ducks, geese etc from stalls right outside the tavern.
Until it moved the tavern was in Upper Thames Street (Warrington).
There was a “Three Cranes” in Paternoster Row…
‘Lost upon the 13th inst., a little blackamoor boy in a blew livery, about 10 years old, his hair not much curled, with a silver collar about his neck, inscribed “Mrs. Manby’s blackamoor, in Warwick Lane.” Whoever shall give notice of him to Mrs. Manby, living in the said lane, or to the “Three Cranes,” in Pater-Noster Row, shall be well rewarded for his peynes.’—1664.
Curious advertisements, the Book of Days.
N.B. Cranes at the Stocks? so sayeth the diary