Paddy's Goose

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Paddy's Goose

  1. (UK, slang, obsolete) The White Swan, a celebrated public house in Ratcliff Highway, east London, England.
    • 1870, Daniel Joseph Kirwan, Palace and Hovel, Or, Phases of London Life, page 633:
      "Paddy's Goose," or the "White Swan," as it is called by its owner, is perhaps the most frightful hell-hole in London. The very sublimity of vice and degradation is here attained,
    • 1890, Francis Edward Smiley, The Evangelization of a Great City, page 209:
      To-day the White Swan, better known as Paddy's Goose, once one of the vilest dance-houses in Ratcliff Highway, is to be opened as a Mission Hall by the Wesleyan Methodist Home Mission,

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