Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Cheshire and Lancashire, 1766-1883

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