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Olympics Year 2012 :
22nd May 2012 : Amongst many other updates, I have been working on the Streatham area recently; and now have moved back to Middlesex, where I am rebuilding the various indexes. The usual random updates as I choose. Also following Eddie Izzard, an amazing comedian / athlete who is running 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa for the Nelson Mandela foundation. You have probably already noticed this plastered over every page on the site! Well, my own mini marathon is to pave our garden - 108 paving stones are being delivered on Friday. I then have 27 days - and no sponsorship!
20th May 2012 : Contrary to google and other SEO recommendations, that it is not good to have multiple sites serving the same pages, I have now moved londonpublichouse.com and pubsinuk.com back as parked domains on deadpubs.co.uk; albeit with some new material.
18th May 2012 : Slowly responding to some excellent emails from months ago. I now realise that I get people who are keen to add to the site, and sadly hog my time. what little I have available. The revenues for the site/s are dropping badly at present, and if this persists, I would need to drop my dedicated server, which would be a shame. There are also some new guidelines for webmasters which come into force next week, this is to do with online advertising and cookies. You may notice a small check box at the top of pages, this is to keep me within the European laws as regards cookie legislation - 'whatever' (just read the message and tick the box!). Donna Summers died yesterday, an amazing talent whom is now playing in the background. ; 'Love to love you baby', - and lots of sexually explicit groans as we sing along! Brilliant, and God bless.
16th May 2012 : I am catching up with five months worth of emails, now. About time, they all say! Advertising from google adsense is still rubbish. Eddie Izzard has started his 27 marathons in 27 days, running in South Africa for the Nelson Mandela fund. He has completed two marathons so far, in two days!
The addition of newer London 1971 entries has been positive, and an useful addition to the site/s. This is growing at about 100 additional entries a day, as I find the time. Meanwhile, the revenues from the sites have dropped drastically over the past week or so. I did get to the point of deciding that revenues were inadequate to cover server costs for the sites, but I decided to try this out for another week. I only need to break even - this is not a major fundraising activity! At worst, I will remove sites to inferior servers, but I am hoping this will not occur.
I have a blog / news site in which I advertised the fact that Eddie Izzard is to run 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa. I am guaranteeing a sponsorship of this mad fool at a £1 a mile - about £700 in total (plus gift aid). Pass the word around, he is brilliant, and very funny too. BUT, seriously, he is not going to run this number of miles for just my sponsorship - get sponsoring. Rumour is that Eddie will run bare foot.
11th May 2012 :I am moving towards a more modern post code system for the listing of pubs over the coming weeks. The 1971 listing for London by postcode is growing very fast. I am planning on doing similar for the rest of the South of England. The site is being 'mainly' updated for London for the next few months until after the Olympics. I am particularly interested in anyone who has commercial directories / yellow pages directories for the 1960's, 1970's and 1980's in any area - anywhere. Either an image scan, or rip the pages out and post them to me! I have just re-worked the 1944 London Pubs with a listing by postcode. It is over 3700 entries, so took me about 24 hours.
21st April 2012 : I have separated the londonpublichouse.com from this site, and made it an individual site again. This is to avoid duplication in the search engine algorithms. In the first instance, I am using the site listings of 1983 and 1991, all supplied by Keith Emmerson - East London & City CAMRA ; and linking these back to the deadpubs site as I confirm them in 1983 and 1991. Whilst updating the links on the new site, I was made aware of how much work Stephen Harris (Ex ELCC chair) has added to the sites over the many years. I often mention Stephen for all of his hard work, but need to point out that Stephen also missed a few! (LOL). I am eternally grateful to the East London CAMRA for all their help. I am about to advertise for 1950's and later London Yellow Pages directories to clarify when pubs were current.
18th April 2012 : Adding Yeovil to the site. Middlesex 1914 Public Houses and beer retailers just added. The email went ballistic tonight with updates from three (newer) regular contributors. John Willmott is updating the Wantage area in Buckinghamshire, as I am also adding detail. Bernard lamb is continuing to update much of Berkshire & Buckinghamshire, and Michael is adding masses of census detail, and pictures to the Cheshunt / Walthm Cross parts of Hertfordshire. Plus many other updates. Plus others intent on getting my own personal research back on track - this is on the essex1841 site. Plus many other random enquiries. It's 100 days to the Olympics, and I hope many of the visitors who come to the UK find this site useful (OR just plain confusing). I also have a History of Stratford and other areas available for historical research. None of these sites are as useful as TFL if you want to get around modern London, but I enjoy creating this style of historical research site.
Actually, I am really proud of my sites and the content; and all of you who
contribute should also be very proud, too. Thanks, Kevan.
4th April 2012 : Checking google books today for London directories and came across the Archdeacons directory in 1852, for parts of Kent, i.e. Greenwich & Woolwich including Deptford, Blackheath, Lewisham, Charlton and Plumstead - cool. Updating these areas tonight - the usual "more to follow". This is really useful, as I am not clear where to place parts of Charlton and Backheath at present.
3rd April 2012 : The 1944 London pubs have been of interest for the past few days. I had borrowed the 1944 Post Office Directory from the University of Essex library some years ago, and scanned the pages for the pubs and beer retailers. (The book is several kilograms in weight!). The latter, i.e. the London 1944 beer retailers are now finally listed on the site. I am slowly adding links from this listing to the relevant pubs and beer houses. The 1919 suburban directory of beer retailers has also been added - more similar data to follow over the coming days.
This interesting listing of ALL pubs and beer houses in 1944 serves as a very useful guide due to a considerable number of London street name changes about this time. It also excludes a number of pubs which were lost before about 1943 during WWII. I have chosen two points in time which serve well to ensure all London Pubs are listed (including the beer retailers) - these are in 1899 and also 1944. By ensuring that these listings are used in linking to the pubs on the site, I believe that I am making a fair coverage of London pub history, it's street directory and the pubs.
The last point to make is that by 1938, and then 1944 with street changes, the entire listing of London and the suburbs (i.e. county pubs now in London) are listed at their latest London address. I hope this site is useful to others in searching London historical streets.
(My kids think I am mad, as a historical London Street directory should relate to the last 10 years, and not nearly 70 years ago, but hey ho!).
30th March 2012 : A quick rejoinder on this pub history site. I have been tidying up the code on the site for a few days; actually I spend a lot of time doing this as the site was never planned - it just evolves. As there are nearly 40,000 pages and probably thousands of images, it is always interesting to actually revisit pages that I have not seen for many months or years. I am working on the site late as usual, so I will keep this brief.
1. I am really proud of what I have achieved over the last nine years since I started the pub history site - well actually, I re-started the site as the Essex Pubs site (it was Ian Pubby Hunter's site), and I started adding bits for other areas.
2. My confidante has always been Colleen, who has supported me along the way; and continues to supply a mass of early imagery. Colleen also ensured that Ian's site continued to work.
3. Along with many others, my main help has been Stephen Harris. Stephen supplies a major number of photographic images from anywhere. He also supplies me with considerable historical detail for the pub. He probably has entries on about 50 % of the pages now.
4. There are many others who contribute.
Wow, have I really done all of this, because I am really proud of what has been achieved on the deadpubs site. I mean that I am really proud. The answer is NO, I did not do this all on my own. Thanks to you all.
27th March 2012 : Continuing to update London Pubs history before the deluge of Olympic fans.
24th March 2012 : Continuing slow trawl through Hackney in 1891; and found a mass of Hackney early census detail which is yet to be added as I work out the correct address. Anyone want to help out with this?
23rd March 2012 : Back in London and Kent at present. And Somerset, and all of the other areas I cover and update. I received an email for Buckingham asking whether it is OK to copy all of the detail to a new web site that was not yet even in production - answer is NO - go away and research the detail yourself. Back to London, and Kent ; and probably everywhere else in the country shares a similar problem - being:
Modern breweries are very good at making a building look old, and selling a pub as being a veritable OLD pub with lots of history. Most are a mock up of an old building, or sometimes just a modern building rebuilt.
16th March 2012 : Recent updates and pictures from Bernard Lamb led me to the Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire borders. There are a number of places which seem to pop in and out of each county, e.g. Flamstead, Markyate, Studham, Caddington etc. I have spent a little time adding what I think is a reasonable update; and at the same time started adding Bedfordshire, e.g. Luton. A few other smaller updates continue in similar areas.
Stephen Harris has just finished updating Poplar for the time being, with six large additions. Terry continues to send me detail for Frome.
14th March 2012 : Interesting. I posted a few pictures of the Chez Laurie, Herne
Bay as a honeypot site to see which sites would copy the images. Several weeks
later, there is some moron in flickr who has posted the three images as his /
her own. Do people not understand copyright?
11th March 2012 : Frome, in Somerset is now being updated vociferously. This includes many pictures from Terry, Thanks. Other updates include Bridgwater, in Somerset - a new entry. Actually, I do not really want this to be a pubs site - I would like it to be a historical street directory. I use pubs as they are easy to link to, and often in the same place for many moons. I purposely use church parishes, as churches disappear even less. I always wanted to be a lumberjack, leaping from tree to tree. (The brilliant Monty Pythons).
1st March 2012 : A few new regular contributors are Paul Prior - lots of
1970s London pubs pictures. Bernard Lamb - various Herts, Bucks pictures and
Michael for a major update of Cheshunt, in Hertfordshire. Also, just added Mere,
in Wiltshire with pictures from Terry. Plus all the usual people who are
regularly thanked. Another regular contributor for the Westminster area is John
Hills, who is re-writing the entire area for me - thanks John ( another major
update).
23rd February 2012 : In a moment of madness, I decided to add Huntingdonshire.
Apparently, I had already started - so have added a few more entries, and added
the county to the index pages. Whilst checking through the 1881 census, I got
stuck in Peterborough, and this is now also being added, slowly.
Peterborough was in
Northampton, historically until 1965; although now appears to be in Cambridgeshire. More
confusion, and lots to do as usual. This part of the site is not yet properly
live as yet. Enjoy. Keep the updates coming for any of the areas covered in the
South of England.
21st February 2012 : I only have a limited amount of time each evening to update
the deadpubs site; as I work during the daytime at a leading UK University. The
deadpubs site is starting to add 1970 material, which is of great historical
interest - do you have pictures and additional detail for this period and later,
please? Thank you, Kevan.
If you fancy a break, and enjoy Italy
- as I do, here is another site I occasionally update. There are a number of
other sites I run, but one at a time will do.
14th February 2012 : Adding a few updates for Huntingdon tonight. Moving
north slowly, and pace is quickening. The pub historyt site will eventually
cover the entire UK. I need to speak to a few sites which are allowing copying
of my images and other detail, i.e. plagiarism. One area I do not need to
cover is Norfolk - a
brilliant site.
12th February 2012 : Adding considerable updates to Shoreditch this evening, and
Chelmsford.
11th February 2012 : It is very cold this week. Where has the time gone, perhaps
we are frozen in time - the historical pub site certainly is.
Aylesbury has been of
interest for the past few days. The Buckinghamshire area was originally built
for the site by Colin Ager; and Stephen Harris has added some excellent
photographs plus a little more detail by myself. Thanks to all. Also added
detail for Chenies, and also
a little for Cuddington. I
am interested in the Hollyman family linked to here, and there will be more
detail to come.
7th February 2012 : The latest pub history major updates include
Hemel Hempstead. Many
other areas updated too. I keep getting asked for pictures, this seems the norm.
30th January 2012 : Pub history updates are mainly in Kent - Sandgate,
Frindsbury, Upnor and also Folkestone, and Hythe. Some of these have been added
to heavily by pictures and research from Stephen Harris. Stephen not only
supplied the majority of the modern pictures on this site, he is also a major
researcher for the pubs he photographs and the relevant area.
24th January 2012 : I have been offline for four days +, thanks to the appalling
BT Infinity service; and their total disregard to my level of service. The
broadband is now working, albeit slowly, and I am still awaiting the engineer to
arrive. I had three engineer visits booked by their call centre, and nearly took
three days from work (I did waste one day) - the engineer turned up on the third
booking after five days; other engineer visits were cancelled at the last minute
or not at all. BT
Infinity is being heavily advertised at present, but I will be
cancelling my BT
Infinity service when the minimum 18 month contract ends, and moving back to a
reliable and honest provider. Pub history updates continue, finally.
19th January 2012 : Limehouse pub history updates from Stephen Harris continue.
18th January 2012 : I regularly checkout how the pub history site (deadpubs)
is recognised in google. I do not bother with most other search engines. Google
pagerank is 4, which is reasonable. I then check Alexa to ascertain where I
stand (about 40,000 UK) - (about 900,000 World). I then type deadpubs to search
on links (info:deadpubs.co.uk) does the same thing. This produces differing
results at different times of day and from different email accounts. The last
thing I do is check what people are saying about the site. The most interesting
is the various county forums; and many of these posts either 'sell' the site as
fantastic (thanks), or berate the site as it is only listing 32 out of 40
historical pubs in Brompton, Kent (for example). It is always interesting that
the beraters never offer anything useful to this site, whilst those who rate the
deadpubs site are also often people who can be bothered to do some research and
share it with others. Anyway, on the back of this research, I have decided to
limit the deadpubs site on pub history to Essex, and London. And maybe Kent,
Hampshire, Surrey, Sussex, and in fact continue what I am already doing - and
Wales? Whatever.
16th January 2012 : Lots more pub history updates for
Shoreditch pub in the last
few days, and continuing. I have a totally separate site on visiting
Italy which I may add
some updates very soon (and lots of lovely pictures). It is a welcome break from
all the history stuff.
14th January 2012 : Today, updating Croydon and neighbourhood (e.g.
Shirley, South Norwood, Croydon etc). Also updating
Shoreditch in 1871. Yesterday, I was discussing Ian 'Pubby'
Hunter and his fantastic Essex pub site. He started this site, and I hope he
likes what I have managed over the years to add to his great site, along with
many others. Thanks to Ian, god bless.
10th January 2012 : Updates of various areas in Surrey. Lambeth continues,
as does Croydon; and South Norwood
added. I added three fantastic images of the
Chez Laurie, in Herne Bay - I
wonder how long before these are copied onto the various forums without a proper
reference?
6th January 2012 : My interest (today) is in images on the site, of which
I have added quite a few this evening. Some of the better search engines
differentiate their search between 'everything', and 'sites with images'. I am
currently adding images (randomly) to the various index pages (as I can be
bothered). You have to somehow prove to the top search engines that you are a
useful site rather than the many that serve no purpose.
Stevenage in
Herts updated heavily today.
2nd January 2012 : The pub history site, and all the other sites that I run, now
create over 48,000 pages in the search engine (thanks to
freefind search engine -
which I get for free). Most of the pages are on this site, i.e. there are over
32,000 pub history pages. I have no idea how many pubs this includes. The pub
history site now covers all of Essex, London, Kent, most of the South Eastern
counties, and major parts of the South Western counties, etc. I am currently
adding Hampshire as fast as I can (does anybody have any old or new pictures I
can add to the site - plus pub history, of course).
I spend a variant amount of time on a an area. I spent several days recently adding Bromley by Bow, to get a very brief thanks, but also a question as to how I was able to find a pub that everybody else was attempting to research, but could not find? The answer is that I am very good at research, and also because I put the hours into the research. My research is not always available for free. Contact me for details.
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