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This historical street & Pub history directory is built around the historical Pubs
and churches. It ignores postal codes, which are a fairly modern addition. The
site begins by listing Pubs before the 1900's, in their original church
parishes. It continues with the addition of postal codes where
appropriate, with all Pubs added in relevance to their original church parish.
As confusing as this may sound, it is actually a good and fair system; and
places a Pub or street in the correct locality. This historical Pubs site links
the history of the Pubs to the many street name changes in London & the south east over about
a century of change. Enjoy, but please contribute your research. Importantly,
the site lists important street name changes over the period, through
street renaming and renumbering. 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. We already have access to vast resources of
historical maps. 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! Come on google
[or microsoft, or Yahoo, or AOL - whoever] , sort it out properly. 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 about this time. Many of
the roads with similar names were simply renamed to distinct road names. This is
where the 1944 listing of Pubs is incredibly useful, if you can match the Pub
with that in 1938! A similar process occurred sometime between 1899 and 1910. Here are some random historical and new images of the many thousands
of Pubs on the pub history site: Lobster, Canvey Island : Cricketers, Bethnal Green :
Bow Bells, Bromley : George, Crawley Eclipse, Islington :
Brunel Hotel, Plymouth :
The Cricketers, Richmond 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).
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.
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, 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).
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.
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