Swine Green - Nottingham, Nottinghamshire - Blue Plaques on Waymarking.com

"Near here was Newstead House, the residence of Lord Byron when a boy. It was while living here that he perpetrated the well-known squib upon his bete noire, a relative living in Swine Green. This person had the misfortune to greatly offend the childish poet by reference to his lameness and probably to some of his many other childish faults. He was brought home in a state of high dudgeon and remained quiet and morose for some time. At last he burst out with the couplet:—

"I wish such a person never had been,
As the odious old woman who lives in Swine Green."

This outburst seemed to comfort him and it is curious that it has come down to our own day and is probably more frequently quoted than any other of the poet's utterances."

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The plaque on the front of Faraday's reads:
This site was formerly known as
SWINE GREEN

LORD BYRON
wrote his first piece of poetry in 1798,
with the verse
"In Nottingham County there lives at
Swine Green as curst an old lady
as ever was seen...

The full verse is:
"In Nottingham county there lives at Swine Green,
As curst an old lady as ever was seen;
And when she does die, which I hope will be soon,
She firmly believes she will go the moon."

and is one of Byron's earliest surviving poems.

Blue Plaque managing agency: City of Nottingham Individual Recognized: Lory Byron Physical Address: Faradays 23-27 Victoria Street Nottingham, Nottinghamshire England NG1 2EW Web Address: [Web Link]

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