The London, Essex, Kent, Hampshire, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Suffolk, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Dorset, Oxfordshire Trade Directories

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The Historical Essex, London, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Kent, Suffolk, Oxfordshire, Sussex & Surrey Dead Pubs site in the South East of England

The Deadpubs site lists the historical street and trade directory information for the UK, listing the Pub History of London, Essex, Kent, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire & Dorset. It is a historical Public Houses site and Directory listings, and has entries up until 1944 at the latest. If there is not an entry for a year, it is because I do not have this information, please help to complete the data. Many of the Pubs listed may still be open, although Pubs in 2009 are closing or changing usage rapidly.

The thousands of pages list original content on Pub History, Census and Trade Directory entries  from the Post Office , Kelly and Pigots Trade Directories, Petty Session Victuallers records etc. for the last two hundred years.  The public houses,  taverns, beer houses & beer retailers (the early off licences) are listed by church parish as they would have existed before 1900, as many of these are no longer in existence. Use this site, and the search engine, to discover the areas of London and the Home counties during this time.
It is always useful to find your people in the census first, which are now available in 1901, and every ten years previous back to 1841 - 1841 and 1901 , then again in 1911. Next, find some civil registrations at the freebmd site (or try the card system at your local library). If your relative was a tradesman, there is probably an entry in the early Yellow Pages (Kellys, Pigots & Post Office Directories). In the case of beer retailers and licensed victuallers - there should be a court entry for licensing in the Petty Sessions Victuallers records. These Petty Sessions records will be held at the relevant record office (probably).


This pub history directory is an important tool in searching for addresses in the towns that have changed over time. It is more than just a Pub History site for this reason.

London has been carved up into administrative chunks on a number of different bases over the centuries, from the old parish system to the current post code one. This site offers an alternative view to the modern post code system. Post codes might seem, initially, like a good system to use, but in reality they are probably worse than useless. Postal districts are based, alphabetically, on the location of main post office and are very confusing to people who expect some kind of numerical logic (e.g. N10's neighbours are N8, N6 and N2).  [Caroline Bradford]

Whereas, churches appear to last for ever. When was the last time you used directions like ' Turn left at St Andrews, to the end of the road, right at St Edwards, and past St Michaels'. Well, I like the Christian approach to Pubs, and include them in a Parish, there are plenty of church folk inside them just waiting for an excuse to visit their local [church].



Please  email with any historical detail you may have about any London, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Cambridge,  Hampshire & Hertfordshire, Surrey, Berkshire & Sussex Pub history.  I hope you get the idea that this site is about Pub History, around the South of England - help me to make it more interesting.

The Deadpubs site is Sponsored by Barclaycarp.com - contact with new detail: Kevan

The historical trade directory and census listing of all of London, Kent, Suffolk, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and, Dorset. If you are searching for a historical address, try the census and street directory database. This is a Victorian view on the streets of london and the south of England.

And Last updated on: Sunday, 31-Jan-2010 15:19:21 GMT