34/36-42 Coney Street
Although this building is now split into 3, it’s possible this is recent, as the 19thc numbering system puts them as 34 & 33 Coney Street, to fit in with the Black Swan next door. (which is listed as 32 Coney Street in the trade directories)
There was also a yard behind 34, and business listed behind in Copley’s Court, as 34a as well as Blands Court. These are no longer accessible from Coney Street, the entrance appears to be the doorway between the 34 and 33. Current numbering puts this block as 36-42
From the An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York, Volume 5, Central
(135) Range of three houses, Nos. 36, 38, 40 (Fig. 74), of four storeys, was built shortly before the rebuilding of the adjacent Black Swan in 1790. All three have modern shops on the ground floor. No. 38 has a normal town-house plan, with a spacious staircase between front and back rooms, and No. 40 appears to be similar but the upper floors are now shut off. No. 36 is of greater depth, making use of a light-well, and in the late 19th century was joined to a complex of earlier buildings behind; these include a three-storeyed timber-framed structure probably built in the early 17th century but later cased with brickwork, and two small three-storey brick houses, one of them mid 18th-century, the other a little later.
1840 Dale Mrs Ellen,
1851 Marsh James, pianoforte and music warehouse
1861 Marsh James, pianoforte manufactr
Smith George Henry, solicitor
1872 Marsh James, pianoforte and music warehouse
1876 Marsh James, pianoforte, harmonium, and music warehouse
1885 Mason F. & J, portmanteau makers
1886 Mason F. & J, portmanteau makers
1889 Pearse and Co. tea dealers
1893 Sinclair Robert, tobacconist
Surveyor’s Office G. P. O. North-Eastern District (Wm. Sl. Kerswill, survyr)
1895 Sinclair Robert, tobacco manfr
Surveyor’s Office, G.P.O. Northeastern District, Wm, Samuel Kerswill, surveyor Buxton Thomas
1898 Sinclair, Robert, tobacconist and cigar importer
G.P.O. surveyor’s office (North Eastern District)
1900 Sinclair, Robert, tobacconist and cigar merchant
Catholic Association-C. H. Angas, sec.
Husband, Joseph, caretaker
1902 Sinclair, Robert, tobacconist and cigar merchant
Catholic Association – C. H. Angas, sec.
Husband, Joseph, caretaker
1905 Sinclair Robert, tobacconist
1913 Robert Sinclair Tobacco Co. Limited,tobacconists
1921 Robert Sinclair Tobacco Co. Limited, tobacconists
1929 Gray Duncan B.& Partners, auctioneers &c
Boulton R.S. Ltd. tobccnsts
Robert Sinclair Tobacco Co. Ltd. who. tobccnsts
