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I'd read of "Paddy's Goose" then immediately forgotten where I'd read it, so it is very pleasing to bring a keeper of :

Paddy's Goose

Love Lane, Sheffield

Henry Greenwood

(any location for Love Lane ? is/was it near the Queens in Pond Street ?)

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I'd read of "Paddy's Goose" then immediately forgotten where I'd read it, so it is very pleasing to bring a keeper of :

Paddy's Goose

Love Lane, Sheffield

Henry Greenwood

(any location for Love Lane ? is/was it near the Queens in Pond Street ?)

Love Lane is still there just off Love Street near to West Bar/ Corporation Street.

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Love Lane is still there just off Love Street near to West Bar/ Corporation Street.

So, what am I thinking of behind the Queens ?

Thanks for the update.

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Map link

Love lane

not sure if the road is still there as there has been a lot of change in that area of late.

Sue

The photo of Love Lane sign from Sheffield Heritage Museum

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Paddy's Goose was a rum place in the 1860's and 70's. It was the scene of numerous petty thefts and pickpocketing, including the theft of a scarf-pin from the landlord Joseph Woodhead, by two prostitutes, in February 1869. In September 1869 H.Greenwood was refused a wine and spirits licence for the place at the Brewster Sessions. There was a brothel in Paddy's Goose yard in 1870, the keeper of the brothel, who was summonsed in 1872, was Wm Buxton.

Maybe there is scope for this site to compile an 'Index of Brothel Keepers'?

Here is an article which goes on to describe the area round the Goose, it's clientele and the interior of the place. Richard Banner Oakley sound worthy of a little further research....

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lol Maybe there is scope for this site to compile an 'Index of Brothel Keepers'?

Well that's the next project identified lol

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Excellent work. Would love to see a brothel index, no idea where we would find 'em though.

Paddy's Goose was a rum place in the 1860's and 70's. It was the scene of numerous petty thefts and pickpocketing, including the theft of a scarf-pin from the landlord Joseph Woodhead, by two prostitutes, in February 1869. In September 1869 H.Greenwood was refused a wine and spirits licence for the place at the Brewster Sessions. There was a brothel in Paddy's Goose yard in 1870, the keeper of the brothel, who was summonsed in 1872, was Wm Buxton.

Maybe there is scope for this site to compile an 'Index of Brothel Keepers'?

Here is an article which goes on to describe the area round the Goose, it's clientele and the interior of the place. Richard Banner Oakley sound worthy of a little further research....

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In 1837 a magistrate refrained from convicting a notorious brothel-keeper, provided that she leave Sheffield

Police returns for the city of Sheffield, 1844-1862,

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Thus in 1859 it, was claimed that 230 prostitutes over the age of 16, and exactly one under that age, were at large
in Sheffield. Exactitude as to numbers was matched by an exact estimate of places of resort: they
were allegedly using 111 brothels or houses of ill fame.

Policing Sheffield in the Mid-Nineteenth Century'

Chris A Williams
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Interesting ... Split Crow, Spring Street, 1861 Charles Greenwood.

I'd read of "Paddy's Goose" then immediately forgotten where I'd read it, so it is very pleasing to bring a keeper of :

Paddy's Goose
Love Lane, Sheffield
Henry Greenwood

(any location for Love Lane ? is/was it near the Queens in Pond Street ?)

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Get a room ... ! lol

Think we need a brothel posting area.

Thus in 1859 it, was claimed that 230 prostitutes over the age of 16, and exactly one under that age, were at large
in Sheffield. Exactitude as to numbers was matched by an exact estimate of places of resort: they
were allegedly using 111 brothels or houses of ill fame.

Policing Sheffield in the Mid-Nineteenth Century'

Chris A Williams
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Property not named but a probability he owned Paddy's Goose. 

Charles Greenwood, Gentleman, St. Philips Road, Sheffield. 

Flood Claim includes amongst others (Spring Street & Watery Lane) 

"Relaying floors generally resetting Stoves and Chimney pieces making good pointing papering and painting etc. where necessary of property Public house Shop and Cottages in Love Lane and adjoining yards" 

https://sheffieldfloodclaimsarchive.shu.ac.uk/claimSummary.cfm?claim=3-2734

 

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Perhaps the derivation of the name Paddy's Goose?

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In November 1872 William Backstone was brought before the magistrates on a warrant (having failed to answer a previous summons) charged with having kept a brothel in Paddy's Goose Yard, Spring street. The previous July he'd been fined £5 and costs for the same offence. Charles Greenwood, of Carr road, Walkley, the prisoner's landlord, was called. He stated that he owned over thirty similar properties in this neighbourhood and lived on the rents. He had been cautioned about the sort of business that his tenant Backstone was carrying on. Backstone was fined £10 and costs. Greenwood was given a warning and told that he could be charged with aiding and abetting the offence, and cautioned to be more careful about living on the profits produced by vice and wickedness. Greenwood had been brought into court the previous January regarding similar activity, and received a similar warning.

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Charles Greenwood certainly a dodgy Landlord, wonder if he ever got his comeuppance. 

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