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Lancaster Gazette. 26 November 1808
Births. On Monday the 7th instance at the Black Swan, Peasholme Green, Mrs Weston, of a son. This lady was lately exhibited in York, with a midel of the Grand Turks Palace. She is an extraordinary dimunitive of the human species, being but 34 inches high, and in every other respect proportional. Her child exceeded in size most new born infants.
1818, T Brabiner, Black Swan, Peasholme green
1823 Baines, Thomas Brabiner, Black Swan, Peasholm green
1829 Pigots, Sarah Brabiner, Black Swan, Haymarket
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 13 August 1955
Of 52 Yorkshire inns scheduled by the Ministry of Housing and Local Government during the past year as being outstanding historic or architectural importance, 27 are situated in York.
Fifteen of York's inns have been placed on the statutory list, meaning that they cannot be demolished or altered without notice, and the remainder of the 27 are on the supplementary list, and will be preserved as long as other and wider interests are not unduly affected.
Including the The Black Swan, Peasholme Green
1861, Mrs A Barnett, Black Swan, Peasholme green
1872, John Taylor, Black Swan Inn, Peasholme green
1885, William Briggs, Black Swan, Peasholme green
1895, Mrs. Elizabeth Briggs, Black Swan, Peasholme green
1902, Black Swan, E Wright, Peaseholme green
1911 census, Black Swan, 23 Peaseholme Green, Smith
1913, Black Swan, Peasholme green, Fred Wright
In 1921 at 23 Peaseholme Green, the Black Swan
John Walter Dawson, Licensed Victualler aged 37, born in Leeds
Ada Dawson, Wife aged 31 years 11 months, born in York
Walter Dawson, Son, Butcher aged 16 years, born in York
Ivy Dawson, Daughter aged 14 years 6 months
Augustus Percy Hands, Music Hall Artist Comedian, aged 44 years 9 months working for J W Dawson, Black Swan Pease Holme York
1930, Black Swann, Peaseholm Green – James Waddington
1936, Black Swan, Peaseholm Green, James Waddington
Leeds Mercury. 24 April 1939
Another famous old coaching inn in York is the Black Swan, in Peaseholme Green. It claims to have been the birth place of General Wolfe, the hero of Quebec, although he was born in Kent.
At one time the Black Swan was the home of weathy merchants, the Bowes family; previously having family members in parliament, or as Lord Mayor of London. After the Bowes family, was the Thompson family, one of whose daughters was Wolfes mother.
Restoration in 1930 revealed old brickwork and a wealth of beams on the front wall.
1953, Edgar J D Henry, Black Swan, Peaseholme green
1955, Edgar J D Henry, Black Swan, Peaseholme green
2018, The Black Swan, Peasholme Green, York, YO1 7PR
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