Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The aim of the project was to improve access to local and trade directories for the period 1750-1919 by making a substantial collection of English and Welsh directories available online as a Digital Library of Historical Directories. This digital resource comprises in total some 600 directories, covering every English county together with Wales, and ranging widely over the period 1750-1919 (the latter cut-off point chosen for copyright reasons). There is a particular focus on the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s, with at least one directory provided for each county in each of these decades. The digitisation of the volumes involved a two-stage process, in which (1) the hard-copy source was scanned to produce a graphic image of each page, and then (2) those images were processed using OCR software to generate a machine-readable text file.An online version of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester.
This data collection includes the following directories:- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities ... [1886. Part 1: Alphabetical Directory] (1886)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities ... [1886. Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.] (1886)- The Cotton Spinners and Manufacturers' Directory, and Engineers and Machine Makers' Advertiser; with the approximate number of spindles and looms, and the telegraphic addresses, telephone nos., and pay days of the principal firms (1891)- Kelly's Directory of Liverpool and Suburbs, with which is included Birkenhead and neighbourhood. [1894. Part 1: Liverpool] (1894)- Kelly's Directory of Liverpool and Suburbs, with which is included Birkenhead and neighbourhood. [1894. Part 2: Birkenhead and Trade & Court Directories] (1894)- Slater's Manchester and Salford Directory for 1895. With the pay days of the principal firms ... a separate list of shipping houses, their markets, and the class of goods shipped, etc. Also banking and parliamentary directories. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory] (1895)- Slater's Manchester and Salford Directory for 1895. With the pay days of the principal firms ... a separate list of shipping houses, their markets, and the class of goods shipped, etc. Also banking and parliamentary directories. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.] (1895)- General and Commercial Directory of Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Padiham, Barrowford, Brierfield, Cliviger, Trawden, Barnoldswick, and adjacent villages and townships (1896)- Kelly's Directory of Cheshire. (1896)- Gore's Directory of Liverpool and its environs, including on the Cheshire side, Birkenhead, Tranmere, Oxton, Rock Ferry, Bebington, & part of Eastham, Hoylake, West Kirby, New Brighton, Bidston, Wallasey, Liscard, Seacombe ... [1900. Part 1: Street List & Street Directory] (1900)- Gore's Directory of Liverpool and its environs, including on the Cheshire side, Birkenhead, Tranmere, Oxton, Rock Ferry, Bebington, & part of Eastham, Hoylake, West Kirby, New Brighton, Bidston, Wallasey, Liscard, Seacombe ... [1900. Part 2: Alphabetical Directory] (1900)- Gore's Directory of Liverpool and its environs, including on the Cheshire side, Birkenhead, Tranmere, Oxton, Rock Ferry, Bebington, & part of Eastham, Hoylake, West Kirby, New Brighton, Bidston, Wallasey, Liscard, Seacombe ... [1900. Part 3: Trade & Official Directories] (1900)- Kelly's Directory of Cheshire, 1902 (1902)
Main Topics:The directories included are of many different kinds, commonly embracing trade, commercial, and private resident directories, together with gazetteers, almanacs, official information, etc. For the purposes of deposit in the UK Data Archive, the collection has been divided into 35 studies on a regional and temporal basis.
No sampling (total universe)
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
