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   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1903. [Part 1: Topography & Street Directory] (1903)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1903. [Part 2: Alphabetical Directory] (1903)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1903. [Part 3: Trades & Official Directories, etc.] (1903)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1903. [Part 4: Suburban Directory] (1903)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1909. [Part 1: Topography & Street Directory] (1909)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1909. [Part 2: Alphabetical Directory] (1909)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1909. [Part 3: Trades & Official Directories, etc.] (1909)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory for 1909. [Part 4: Suburban Directory] (1909)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory, 1911. [Part 1: Street Directory] (1911)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory, 1911. [Part 2: Alphabetical Directory]  (1911)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory, 1911. [Part 3: Trades, Ecclesiastical, etc.] (1911)- Slater's   Manchester,   Salford   and   Suburban   Directory, 1911. [Part 4: Suburban, Banking, etc.] (1911)- T.  Bulmer  &  Co.'s  History,  Topography,  and  Directory  of  Lancaster  &  District,  comprising  the  history  and  archaeology  of  the  town  of  Lancaster,  with  separate  historical  descriptions  of  each  parish  and  township  within  a  radius  of  about  sixteen miles / ed. by J. Bulmer. (1912)- Kelly's Directory of Cheshire, 1914 (1914)- Slater's  Directory  of  Altrincham,  Bowdon,  Sale,  Brooklands and Dunham Massey and neighbourhood, for 1914. Comprising a register of the principal streets, an alphabetical list of names, and a classified trades list (1914)- General  and  Commercial  Directory  of  Preston,  Longton, Kirkham, Penwortham ... and adjacent villages and townships / by P. Barrett & Co. (1917)

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