Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Durham and Northumberland, 1801-1916

<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>- Directory&nbsp; for&nbsp; the&nbsp; year&nbsp; 1801,&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; town&nbsp; and&nbsp; county&nbsp; of&nbsp; Newcastle&nbsp; upon&nbsp; Tyne,&nbsp; Gateshead,&nbsp; and&nbsp; places&nbsp; adjacent,&nbsp; containing&nbsp; an&nbsp; alphabetical&nbsp; list&nbsp; of&nbsp; merchants,&nbsp; bankers,&nbsp; brokers,&nbsp; wharfingers,&nbsp; and&nbsp; coal&nbsp; fitters;&nbsp; likewise&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; manufacturers,&nbsp; traders&nbsp; ...&nbsp; To&nbsp; which&nbsp; is&nbsp; prefixed,&nbsp; an&nbsp; account&nbsp; of&nbsp; Newcastle,&nbsp; its&nbsp; commerce,&nbsp; curiosities, and public buildings (1801)<br><br>- History, Directory, and Gazetteer, of the Counties of Durham and Northumberland, and the towns and counties of Newcastle-upon-Tyne&nbsp; and&nbsp; Berwick-upon-Tweed (1827)<br><br>- Ward's&nbsp; Northumberland&nbsp; and&nbsp; Durham&nbsp; Directory;&nbsp; containing&nbsp; Alnwick,&nbsp; Bambrough,&nbsp; Belford,&nbsp; Berwick,&nbsp; Gateshead,&nbsp; Newcastle,&nbsp; North Shields, South Shields, Sunderland, and their localities (1850)<br><br>- Hagar and Co.'s Directory of the County of Durham. Containing&nbsp;&nbsp; an&nbsp;&nbsp; alphabetical&nbsp;&nbsp; list&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; the&nbsp;&nbsp; gentry,&nbsp;&nbsp; merchants,&nbsp;&nbsp; manufacturers,&nbsp; professions,&nbsp; trades,&nbsp; &amp;c.,&nbsp; and&nbsp; separate&nbsp; historical,&nbsp; statistical, and topographical descriptions of the towns, parishes (1851)<br><br>- The Durham Directory and Almanack (1854)<br><br>- History,&nbsp;&nbsp; Topography,&nbsp;&nbsp; and&nbsp;&nbsp; Directory&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; Northumberland,&nbsp; comprising&nbsp; a&nbsp; general&nbsp; survey&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; county,&nbsp; and&nbsp; a&nbsp; history&nbsp;&nbsp; of&nbsp;&nbsp; ...&nbsp;&nbsp; Newcastle-upon-Tyne,&nbsp;&nbsp; with&nbsp;&nbsp; separate&nbsp;&nbsp; historical,&nbsp;&nbsp; statistical, and descriptive sketches of the boroughs of Gateshead and Berwick-upon-Tweed (1855)<br><br>- The Durham Directory and Almanack (1857)<br><br>- Post&nbsp; Office&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Northumberland&nbsp; and&nbsp; Durham (1858)<br><br>- Kelly's&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Newcastle-on-Tyne&nbsp; and&nbsp; Suburbs (1886)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Durham (1890)<br><br>- Ward's&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Newcastle-on-Tyne&nbsp; and&nbsp; the&nbsp; adjacent villages; together with an almanac, a town and county guide, and a commercial advertiser (1890)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1894)<br><br>- Ward's&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Newcastle-on-Tyne&nbsp; and&nbsp; the&nbsp; adjacent villages; together with an almanac, a town and county guide, and a commercial advertiser (1898)<br><br>- Ward's&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Newcastle-on-Tyne&nbsp; with&nbsp; its&nbsp; extended boundary, which now includes: Benwell Village, South, West and New&nbsp; Benwell,&nbsp; Fenham,&nbsp; Scotswood,&nbsp; Walker&nbsp; and&nbsp; Walker&nbsp; Gate,&nbsp; Wallsend,&nbsp; and&nbsp; the adjacent villages (1910)<br><br>- Kelly's&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Durham&nbsp; and&nbsp; Northumberland,&nbsp; 1914. [Durham only] (1914)<br><br>- Kelly's Directory of Northumberland (1914)<br><br>- Ward's&nbsp; Directory&nbsp; of&nbsp; Newcastle-on-Tyne&nbsp; with&nbsp; its&nbsp; extended boundary, which now includes Benwell Village, South, West and New&nbsp; Benwell,&nbsp; Fenham,&nbsp; Scotswood,&nbsp; Walker&nbsp; and&nbsp; Walker&nbsp; Gate.&nbsp; Wallsend&nbsp; and&nbsp; the adjacent villages (1916)<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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