The Historical street & Pub History directory of London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset & Dorset.

The London, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex, Devon, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Oxfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Norfolk Pubs and UK best Broadband

The historical street directory shows details of an address through time. Search for an open OR closed pub by historical Pub name, surname or street address.

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The Historical street & Pub History directory of London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset & Dorset.

The London pubs site was created by Kevan & Stephen Harris

The (deadpubs) historical street directory is a listing of open & closed Pubs which show the address changes through time, and in a historical perspective. It concentrates on the many road name changes through the years because of slum clearance, road renaming and modern office building. The site lists Pubs and their history in their original church parishes; and attempts to describe the towns through the two past two hundred years.

London is very interesting in itself, it bore the brunt of the WWII bombings, as did many other places, but also went through a road renaming process between 1938 and 1944. Many of the roads with similar names were simply renamed to distinct road names. This is where the 1944 listing of Pubs is incredibly important, now complete, and unique to this site - it lists all named pubs and beer retailers who were trading in 1944. You can then match the Pub or address with that in 1938 or earlier through the search engine! This is the historical London street directory at its best.

Pubs, like churches move slowly over a period of time, I use this to my advantage. 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. Google has mapped vast areas in its street view and modern maps, Ordnance Survey are releasing their maps to the wider community. H istorical maps are a must in this research.

Here are some random historical and new images of the many thousands of Pub images on the pub history site:

Lobster, Canvey Island	Cricketers, Bethnal Green	Bow Bells, Bromley
George, Crawley	Eclipse, Islington	Brunel Hotel, Plymouth
	The Cricketers, Richmond

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. The deadpubs site is updated on a daily basis by the many regular contributors.

Search the London & Southern England Pub History site and Street directory by historical Pub name, surname or street address. The Pub history site is a major historical street directory which lists mainly Pubs and street name changes between about 1840 and 1940. The site is updated every day. Contact: Kevan with any updates and additions.

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All transcriptions and imagery is copyright, and excepting personal usage (which is fine); it is NOT available for commercial usage or copying onto other websites without explicit permission. Many of the images, and all of the transcriptions are the work of myself and other contributors - please do not steal this work.
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.
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The London, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex, Devon, Buckinghamshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Oxfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Cornwall, Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Norfolk Pubs and UK best Broadband

The historical street directory shows details of an address through time. Search for an open OR closed pub by historical Pub name, surname or street address. site search by freefind

The Historical street & Pub History directory of London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset & Dorset.

The historical street directory shows details of an address through time. Search for an open OR closed pub by historical Pub name, surname or street address.

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