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Swan with Two Necks, London

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The Swan with Two Necks, 1831, engraved by F. Rosenberg after a painting by James Pollard
The Swan with Two Necks, 1831, engraved by F. Rosenberg after a painting by James Pollard

The Swan with Two Necks was a coaching inn in the City of London that, until the arrival of the railways, was one of the principal departure points for travel to the north of England from London. Its site was given over in the early 1860s to a goods and parcels depot for a firm of railway agents and carriers.

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Swan with Two Necks, London
Gresham Street, City of London

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Gresham Street 55
EC2V 7EL City of London
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The Swan with Two Necks, 1831, engraved by F. Rosenberg after a painting by James Pollard
The Swan with Two Necks, 1831, engraved by F. Rosenberg after a painting by James Pollard
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Wood Street, London
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