Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Somerset and Wales, 1900-1919

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><p>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.<br>
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.<br>
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.</p><p><br></p><p>An <a href="http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/digital/collection/p16445coll4" target="_blank">online version</a> of this resource can be found on the Website of the University of Leicester.<br>
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</p><br>This data collection includes the following directories:<br><br>- Bennett's Business Directory (1900)<br><br>- Cardiff Directory, including Penarth, Llandaff, Whitchurch, Ely, and villages adjacent to Cardiff (1901)<br><br>- Trades' Directory of Wales, accompanied with a gazetteer of England (1901)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bristol (1902)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Somerset (1902)<br><br>- The Post Office Bath Directory (1902)<br><br>- Trades' Directory of Wales, accompanied with a gazetteer of England (1903)<br><br>- South Wales and Monmouthshire Directory and Buyers' Guide (1907)<br><br>- The Swansea Directory 1908-9. With which is incorporated Mumbles, Sketty and Cockett, Gower, Landore ... including a business section of Aberystwyth, Carmarthen, Llanelly ... small towns and villages throughout South Wales (1908)<br><br>- Cardiff Directory, including Penarth, Llandaff, Whitchurch, Ely, and villages adjacent to Cardiff (1909)<br><br>- Cardiff Directory, including Penarth, Llandaff, Whitchurch, Ely, and villages adjacent to Cardiff (1911)<br><br>- The Post Office Bath Directory (1911)<br><br>- Wales (North and South) Trades' Directory, accompanied with a gazetteer of England (1912)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Herefordshire (1913)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Shropshire (1913)<br><br>- Cardiff Directory, including Penarth, Llandaff, Whitchurch, Ely, Caerphilly, and villages adjacent to Cardiff (1914)<br><br>- Cardiff, Newport, and District Trades' Directory, accompanied with a gazetteer of England (1914)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Bristol (1914)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of the County of Gloucester (1914)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Monmouthshire and South Wales, 1914. [Monmouthshire only] (1914)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of the County of Somerset (1914)<br><br>- Wales (North and South) Trades' Directory, accompanied with a gazetteer of England (1918)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of the County of Somerset (1919)<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR>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.<br>
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