A vip concierge worth their salt will be able to direct you to the most exclusive venues in the city. The ucl room bookings website lists the rooms and areas that can be booked on campus. The national archives is the uk governments official archive. Post office employee records go online who do you think. Pdf version of an information sheet on british phone books. Following that, they are described in alphabetical order. The guildhall library also has lloyds marine collection and london city parish registers. The team regularly takes calls from journalists and can assist in finding rooms to suit particular needs. The archive comprises topographical compilation material, built up and maintained by the war office for making and revising maps, together with material created in the course of map production.
These volumesand in oldestablished firms the whole unbroken series is generally to be foundmay serve the. Many of our digital collections provide material for free online. Family and local history collections london borough of bexley. The origins of the proprietary land office may be traced to 1682 when william penn appointed thomas holme surveyor general. The official website of the city of london 300 dufferin avenue 519661city 2489 311 within london.
Bt archives is an archive preserving the documentary heritage of bt and its public sector. Following the guidance of public health and government authorities on the evolving covid19 situation, the archives of ontario inperson services will be closed until further notice. The alloa illustrated family almanac, district directory and general register for the county of clackmannan for 1887. Post office employee records go online who do you think you. The important point of correction and addition up to date is diligently attended to. Whether youre looking for a makeup artist or sound engineer, lighting equipment hire or catering, a. Post office london trades directory, 1891 historical directories. The maps were created between 1877 and 1940, and show the region as it was immediately before and during the colonial era. Search our online phone book to find phone numbers, addresses, and more. City of westminster archives centre westminster city council.
The boston, ma white pages phone book official site. Once a pdf has been chosen and opened, the entire file can be searched by using your pdf viewers search function. This applies to our reading room, tour program, travelling exhibit loans, and access to our classroom, exhibition space and facilities located at 4 ian macdonald. To carry out a search, input the search criteria in the right field s and press on the search button. The residents enumerated in the early volumes of the post office london directory are a select fewan exclusive circlecom pared with those who now find place in its columns. Over 700 digitised directories covering most of scotland and dating from 1773 to 1911 are available here for you to use. The collection of records from the private telegraph companies dating back to 1846 are some of the oldest held by bt archives. Record group 84 17881990 overview of records locations table of contents 84. Find a site in the uk government web archive s collection by browsing our full a to z list. As a business archive, the collection contains a large amount of financial and.
The archive continues to collect and care for the records of royal mail group plc and post office ltd today. The robert elwall photographs collection comprises around 1. Archon directory of archive contact details, now called find an archive. Street directories can be searched for a keyword or phrase with the option of restricting the search to a particular directory or date range.
Under a constantly evolving set of procedures and relationships, the surveyor general cooperated with the secretary of proprietary affairs, a master of rolls, a receiver general, and commissioners of property in conducting the sale of pennsylvania lands. Bt archives is based in holborn telephone exchange in the holborn area of central london and is open, by appointment, to public researchers on mondays and tuesday from 10. The quality and significance of the documents, photographs and films we preserve have been recognised by both arts council england and unesco uk historical phone books. The archive is free to visit, and is used by a variety of people, from family and social historians. Back in the late 80s i attended a lecture on genealogical research here in the sf bay area. The majority of records held are public records and are available for the public to view on site. It is designated an official place of deposit for public records, for those records created prior to bts privatisation in 1984 the records include minutes, subject files, photographs, film and advertising material that tell the story of telecommunications in the uk and from the uk to. This fascinating body of records includes not just images of old equipment, but views of engineers and telephone operators at work, old vehicles, street furniture and scenes and so forth, including many local.
Please come to our reading rooms to access material that isnt available online. Scottish post office directories provide a perfect basis for researching scotlands family, trade, and town history. Dating back to 1880, the archive contains 1,780 directories and around 280 million names. This collection includes all the records created and used by the inland private telegraph companies before the network was nationalised under the post office in 1870. Trade directories and telephone books city of london. The edison telephone company of london publishes first phone book. For everyone interested in archives in or about london users, practitioners and enthusiasts.
Free digital downloads while our kew site is closed, signedin users can download digital records for free. Call herb hackenberg at the telecommunications history group in denver. We are a nonministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the uk government, and for england and wales. The national archives discovery advanced search form. The photos are drawn from five major archives, covering all the london boroughs. Pa state archives rg17 series titles records of the. National archives and records administration usagov.
Free delivery worldwide on over 20 million books we use cookies to give you the best possible experience. However, this is very selective and, in the case of kellys post office london directory, only included the top 10,000 citizens. The collection contains 689 directories, with at least one directory for every english and welsh county for the 1850s, 1890s and 1910s. The penguin random house uk archives are housed across five sites that hold manuscripts, author contracts, correspondence, artwork, company records, first. Youll find the locations for all our regional offices for pearson in the uk here too. Sometimes the directory is delivered with the inside cover folded inward. Search and view digitised images of street directories covering the years 1819 to 1900. London post office directories 1842, 1851 and 1861, browse. The majority of these come from the photograph library of the post office which grew from the 1930s. We have three london offices where colleagues working across our nine uk publishing houses and many of our central support functions are based. London metropolitan archives lma is home to an amazing range of documents, images, maps, films and books about london. We have three london offices where colleagues working across our nine uk. Vouchers, london care directories, 162 leicester road, barnet, herts en5 5ds. Liverpool street underground station, central line ticket hall.
Boyles court guide, 17921925, kellys handbook, 18801973, 197677 and the royal blue book, 182324, 182635, 18371940 also provide details of london residents. The national archives and records administration preserves u. These archived documents span records of many kinds from domesday book of 1086 to the. Forebears have completed a project to digitise one edition of kellys directory for each county in england and the directory for south wales. Whether youre tracing your family history or researching the history of your neighbourhood, if youre interested in london or londoners, lma is the place to visit. Mar 24, 2017 from 2006, bt put its entire archive of old phone books up to 1984 online.
Learn more records of postmaster appointments records of post office locations other microfilmed records post office names where to find these records for more information post office records may deliver interesting information to the genealogical researcher seeking more information about. If you require copies of more than one directory, or multiple copies of the same directory please call 020 8364 8428. The collection includes the photographic archives of individual architects or practices, travel and topographic images from across the world, press photographs from major architectural journals, and large bodies of work by some of the best known architectural. More post office department descriptions added to the national archives catalog. Tv crews and production companies who wish to film on the ucl campus for nonucl related stories should contact ucl room bookings directly on 020 3108 7577. Offers access to over 30,000 canadian manufacturers and exporters, under over 25,000 different industrial headings. Archive is trying to expand its distribution network if you cant find our books and you have stores to suggest please get in. Bexley local studies and archive centre is the diocesan record office for all the church of england parishes within the london borough of bexley. Whitepages provides the top free people search and tenant screening tool online with contact information for over 250 million people including cell phone numbers and complete background check data. Save documents, spreadsheets, and presentations online, in onedrive. Our main duties are to preserve government records and to set standards in information management and reuse. Archives relating to almost every aspect of our ancestors lives can be found in london. The national archives of the united kingdom genealogy.
We also hold records for several nonconformist churches in the area. A million photographs documenting london over the past 100 years have gone on online display. The boston, ma white pages phone book official site find. Book depository is the worlds most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide. There are over 100,000 photographs in the royal mail archive. The film london directory is an extensive, free database of londons worldclass locations, crew and facilities, helping you to find just what you need for your production. Internet archive is a nonprofit library of millions of free books, movies. Browse a to z of archived websites uk government web archive.
The maps were created between 1877 and 1940, and show the region as it. While our kew site is closed, signedin users can download digital records for free. We have a nearcomplete set of phone books for the whole country produced not only by bt, but also by its predecessors including post office telecommunications, the national telephone company and other. Bt archives cares for more than 500,000 images and 1,000 film titles. These records are arranged alphabetically by state, thereunder by county, and then by name of post office. It has long runs of company, trade and business directories and has actively. A handbook of london bankers, with some account of their predecessors the early goldsmiths.
Sign up to receive our newsletter highlighting the latest industry news, upcoming events, resources, workshops and more in london. Files of national yellow pages directories may be consulted at the berkshire record office repository for the bt archive and also the british library. Available editions in pdf format library and archives canada. Records of the foreign service posts of the department of. Sections h, i and j relate to the india office between 1858 and 1947 and provide coverage of both indian governors and the senior staff of the india office in london. The british librarys collection includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound. Trade and local directories for england and wales from the 1760s to the 1910s. The national records of scotland holds a wide range of business records. Whether youre tracing your family history or researching the history of your neighbourhood, if youre interested in london or londoners. Libraries generally collect published sources such as books, maps, and microfilm.
Archive appendix is the design department that brings a conceptual approach to the relation between text and image. Directory, other london office furniture warehouse showcases a huge range of new and second hand office chairs, desks, storage, screens and other items from a number of reputable manufacturers. They have a huge collection of old phone books and perform a lookup service at a nominal fee. Scottish post office directories national library of scotland. The following files are not searchable in our original database but are available in this list as pdf files. These are documented in the records of the post office telegraph and. London post office directories 1842, 1851 and 1861, browse discover your english ancestor in these three london post office directories.
This collection contains british phone books published between 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced to the uk, and 1984, from the historic phone book collection held by bt archives. Material reaches from the domesday book to primary school logs. The british phone book collection is a major resource for genealogy and family. With their alphabetical list of a locations inhabitants and information on their profession and address. Selected images can be found on bt archives online image gallery. British phone books timeline 1879 the telephone company opens the first telephone exchange in the uk in coleman street in the city of london, with only seven subscribers 1880 on 15 january the telephone company issues the first phone book containing 248 london personal and business names, but no telephone numbers. Find a site in the uk government web archives collection by browsing our full a to z list. Contact the national archives and records administration. Sources a select bibliography is provided on page 8. Bt archives is an archive preserving the documentary heritage of bt and its public sector predecessors. Most business records where they survive are held by local archives but if you want. It is enough to say that the directory, strongly boundbytheway, a thing not to be. Apr 22, 2020 book depository is the worlds most international online bookstore offering over 20 million books with free delivery worldwide.
Most of the selected directories were published around the year 1900. Company and business history records held by other archives the. Read our subject guides to find out more about our core. As of 2009 update there were 122 national, 654 local, 328 university, 1,224 special and 61 business archives. England archives and libraries genealogy familysearch wiki. Also, like the national archives, it holds a variety of business records that were produced in evidence in civil actions and not reclaimed. Rarely, a phone book has an inside cover a page that looks and feels like a cover, but is used to separate the white and yellow pages. Sources are listed chronologically and then discussed by subject. In effect, it was a victorian version of todays yellow pages.
Services for media ucl news ucl university college london. Postmaster appointments after 1832 are found in national archives microfilm publication m841, record of appointment of postmasters, 1832sept. At our archives, view books, directories, maps, newspapers, images, local government records, electoral and parish registers, census returns and more relating. Searchable by name, place and occupation this is an essential tool for local, urban and family history. Londons archive repositories range from the magnificent national archives facility at kew, to one room of. London yellow pages are held from 1969 to date, but we no longer file yellow pages for the rest of the uk. The final pages list addresses for these resources and provide further references. Initially the principal source used was the annual foreign office listfrom 1965 the diplomatic service list. Sep, 20 forebears have completed a project to digitise one edition of kellys directory for each county in england and the directory for south wales. Images reproduced by courtesy of bt archives, london, england.
Volumes printed before 1850 form part of our archives and special. Initially the principal source used was the annual foreign office listfrom 1965. They date from the late 19th century through to the modern day. This database is a collection of directories street, commercial, trade, court, post office, etc. From sky high bars to the hottest, celebrity funded clubs, the night life in london caters to the elite and very discerning. The directories provide lists of traders, bankers, people employed by the crown, officials, lawyers as well as full street directories of london. Complete your family history by finding web sites with online data so that you can answer the question.
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