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It is not known how long The Golden Slipper has been an inn but it's history covers the period for the 15th / 16th century when the north east portion was built, through to the 19th century when the remainder was complete and the Victoria brick facade added. 
It certainly was an inn in 1821 when William Brown was hanged on Bailie Hill for robbing John Armstrong when he was "returning from having a few on the sign of The Slipper in Goodramgate". Armstrong had been severely beaten and thrown into the river until he as "still and stagnated with cold" (as reported in The Gazette 17th - 24th March 1821).  Brown was only the second person to be executed at the City Goal.

York Herald, Saturday April 1826 also reported; "Strike amongst the bricklayers - A meeting was held at Mrs March's, at the sign of The Slipper in Goodramgate, on Wednesday last".  The article goes on to say that as employers combined to reduce the wages of the journey men by two shillings per week - a reduction which the men refused to accede - a "strike" had been the result.

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