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:- Liverpool's First Directory: a reprint of the names and addresses from Gore's Directory for 1766; to which is added a street directory for the same year, compiled by George T. Shaw & Isabella Shaw. Also, a history of the Liverpool directories from 1766 to 1907 by George T. Shaw (1907)- Scholes's Manchester and Salford Directory: or, an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and principal inhabitants, with the new numbers as affixed to their houses (1794)- Scholes's Manchester and Salford Directory: or, an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and principal inhabitants: with the numbers as affixed to their houses (1797)- Pigot and Deans' New Directory of Manchester, Salford, &c. for 1821-2; containing an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and inhabitants in general, with the numbers as affixed to their doors. Also an alphabetical list of the country manufacturers &c. attending the Manchester markets (1821)- Gore's Liverpool Directory, with its environs, for 1825, containing an alphabetical list of the merchants, traders, and principal inhabitants: also, list of the mayor and council, officers of the customs and excise, dock duties and commissioners ... annals of Liverpool, &c. (1825)- Gores' Directory of Liverpool and its environs, 1827 (1827)- Gores' Directory of Liverpool and its Environs for 1829 (1829)- Pigot & Slater's General and Classified Directory of Manchester and Salford, including the adjacent townships: together with the country manufacturers attending the market; regulations of the General Post Office, and full particulars of the conveyances by railway, road and water (1841)- History, Gazetteer, and Directory of the County Palatine of Chester (1850)- Slater's General and Classified Directory and Street Register of Manchester and Salford, and their Vicinities. Full particulars of the various conveyances by railway, road and water ... lists of the edifices for divine worship, with their ministers, and other public buildings, institutions and offices (1850)- A New Alphabetical and Classified Directory of Manchester and Salford, Bolton, Bury, Wigan ... to which are prefixed historical and descriptive sketches, exhibiting their rise, progress, manufactures, and commerce (1853)- Gore's Directory of Liverpool and its Environs. 1853. (1853)- History, Topography, and Directory of Mid-Lancashire, with an essay on geology / by Mannex & Co. (1854)- Charles Balshaw's Stranger's Guide, and Complete Directory, to Altrincham, Bowdon, Dunham, Timperley, Baguley, Ashley, Hale, and Bollington. (1855)- Slater's General and Classified Directory and Street Register of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities; particulars of the various conveyances by railway, road and water ... lists of the edifices for divine worship, with their ministers, and other public buildings, institutions and offices (1863)- Morris and Co.'s Commercial Directory and Gazetteer of Cheshire (1874)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory (Slater's Directory) of Manchester and Salford with their vicinities, 1876. [Part 1: Alphabetical Directory] (1876)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory (Slater's Directory) of Manchester and Salford with their vicinities, 1876. [Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.] (1876)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities; particulars of the conveyances by railway, road and water; lists of the edifices for divine worship, with their ministers; other public buildings, institutions, and offices, with their officials ... [1877-78. Part 1: Alphabetical Directory] (1878)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities; particulars of the conveyances by railway, road, and water; lists of the edifices for divine worship, with their ministers; other public buildings, institutions, and offices, with their officials ... [1877-78. Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.] (1877-78)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities. In addition to the usual information there will be found "the pay days of the principal firms;" a separate list of shipping houses, their markets, and the class of goods shipped ... [1879. Part 1: Alphabetical Directory] (1879)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities. In addition to the usual information there will be found "the pay days of the principal firms;" a separate list of shipping houses, their markets, and the class of goods shipped ... [1879. Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.] (1879)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities ... [1883. Part 1: Alphabetical Directory] (1883)- Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of Manchester and Salford, with their vicinities ... [1883. Part 2: Trades, Institutions, Streets, etc.] (1883)-
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
