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Date of photo: 2007	© Copyright Maigheach-gheal and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence
The Swan was situated on Cheap Street. This pub is now used as The Arch, a cafe/bistro.
This is a late 18th century coaching inn with extensive space for stables and a coach house in what is now “The Swan Yard” . The mixture of beauty salons, coffee shops and retail outlets in the yard are sympathetic conversions of a 'new' complex of stable blocks, loose box, brew house and coach house which were added to the inn in 1861. It closed as a pub in 2015. The Swan in recent years became the home of Vida Comida, a tapas bar, but after a short period in this guise, it closed in August 2018 and it has now been completely converted into retail outlets.
Adrian Harding (February 2021)
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Name	Dates	Comments
Mike Smith	1946-1973	I was born here in 1946. My grandparents, uncle, mum and dad were successive tenants of Hall and Woodhouse, Blandford.

Other Photos
Picture source: Adrian Harding
Date of picture: 1841	Picture source: Jan Hudson