Museum
Swan and Maidenhead pub sign
Description
A sign from the Swan and Maidenhead Inn. In the seventeenth century part of Shakespeare's Birthplace became the Maidenhead Inn, which later became known as the Swan and Maidenhead. Wood-panelled with wooden frame; painted black with gold lettering and border/frame decoration; side originally facing south; attached to the two end sides of the frame are two wrought-iron fixing brackets with barley-twist tops; originally hung from a decorative wrought-iron wall-mounted bracket projecting from the wall of the building.
