Search the London & UK Pub History site and Street directory by historical Pub name or street address.
The Pub history site is a major historical street directory of London and the Southern area of the UK, listing many Pubs (either closed or open); and street name changes between about 1840 and about 1940.
If your Pub is still OPEN (and not a dead pub), why not send a picture and some details - to clarify this.
Please Contact: Kevan with any updates and additions to the site.
The Historical Essex, London, Middlesex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Kent, Suffolk,
Oxfordshire, Sussex & Surrey Dead Pubs site in the South East of England
Eventually, I think the mapping of an address through time will
come, as the technology is improving slowly. Google has mapped vast areas in
its street view and modern maps, Ordnance Survey are releasing their maps to the
wider community. All we need now, is the likes of google and their billions of
pounds to
drill down on an address and show it through the layers of time!
I keep this site simple, but do have the technological know-how to do
much of this - but sadly don't have the time or money, or inclination - hey ho!
Pubs, like churches move slowly over a period of time, I use this to my
advantage.
This historical site lists 'some of' the street and trade directory information
for the UK, listing the Pub
History of
London,
Essex,
Kent,
Gloucestershire,
Hampshire,
Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire,
Middlesex,
Suffolk,
Berkshire,
Buckinghamshire,
Sussex,
Oxfordshire,
Devon &
Dorset. The directory is an important tool in searching for addresses in the towns that
have changed over time. This site lists 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. Not all Pubs are dead Pubs, and I do not tend to list modern information as it is largely a historical Pub site
(Although I welcome any modern pictures of those on the site).
The site lists 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 are listed by church parish as they would have existed before
1900 - many of these are no longer in existence. Use this site, and the
search engine, to discover the areas of London and the South of England during this time.
Here are some research tips. A new addition is the
Middlesex 1826 listing which
actually lists many Pubs within twelve miles of London; and includes many parts
of Essex, Kent, Surrey etc.
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).
Are you watching the twitter? -
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.
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]
This site offers an alternative view to the modern post code system. It lists
Pubs and other addresses according to the census, i.e. according to the church
that was allocated in the census. Occasionally these change over time.
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 contact with new detail is: Kevan
If you wish to use any information on another site, please link back to the deadpubs site with a proper reference link.
The historical trade directory and census listing of all of London, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire
Oxfordshire, 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.
Are you thinking about using a web provider for a useful site? I use eukhost.com - not perfect but also NOT BAD.
I previously used
Lunarpages.com; but Lunarpages.com is a fraudulent American company that likes to use your credit card details when it wants to defraud YOU, and also deletes your web site due to the accounting team being completely useless; which is most of the time
And Last updated on: Sunday, 11-Jul-2010 02:13:41 BST
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