Blue Boy Street, Sheffield
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Blue Boy Street, Sheffield
Image: © Neil Theasby Taken: 17 Oct 2017
Once there was a pub on the corner of this street called "The Blue Boy". It is very possible that the name was connected with Thomas Gainsborough's "Blue Boy" (1770). Several English pubs adopted that name at the end of the eighteenth century.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.387241
Longitude
-1.47583