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Local Studies and Archives collection of directories

Court guides

ABC Court Guide and Fashionable Yearbook

1871.

Boyle's Court Guide

1808-1846 (gaps), 1879-1923 (gaps).

The Royal Blue Book

1858.

Webster's Royal Blue Book

1906, 1915.

London, county and general directories

Essex, Herts and Middlesex

Kelly's.

1937.

London

Post Office (Various publishers until 1836; from 1837 Kelly's).

1800-1991 (gaps).

Kelly's Northern Suburbs.

1872.

London

Little London.

1677 (1878 reprint).

Microfilm of various directories.

1749-1760, 1779-1781, 1795-1797, 1800-1805. 

J. Payne.

1769.

Holden's Triennial.

1805/07.

Kent's.

1813.

Pigot and Co's London and Provincial New Commercial.

1823/24.

Robson's.

1832.

Pigot and Co's Royal National and Commercial.

1839.

Robson's Commercial.

1840.

Thomson's Local. Central London.

1981/82 to date (gaps).

London Directory of Industry and Commerce.

1981-1989, 1992.

Middlesex

Kelly's.

1933, 1937.

Selected local directories

Barnet and East Barnet

Borough Directories Ltd (London Borough of Barnet Directory vol. 3).

1969.

Camden Town and Kentish Town

Hutchings and Crowsley to 1885/86; later Kelly's.

1867, 1874, 1884/85, 1904, 1907-1910, 1911/12-1914/15, 1922, 1923, 1926/27.

Finchley

Borough Directories Ltd (London Borough of Barnet Directory vol. 2).

1970.

Hampstead

J.J. Shaw.

1854.

Hampstead and Highgate

'Express' G.S. Jealous.

1873.

Hutchings and Crowsley to 1886/87; later Kelly's.

1873, 1885/86, 1888/89, 1894/95, 1896-1901, 1903-1940.

Hampstead

Provost and Co; Hampstead Press (Hampstead Yearbook).

1888-1908.

Baines and Scarsbrook Ltd (Local Guide and Almanac).

1896-1914.

Baines and Scarsbrook Ltd (Blue Book).

1928-1939.

Borough Directories (From 1964 published as London Borough of Camden Directory vol. 1).

1951/52, 1954/55, 1959/60, 1961, 1962/63-1967/68, 1969, 1970.

Hendon

Kelly's.

1926, 1937, 1939.

Hendon

Borough Directories Ltd (From 1964 published as London Borough of Barnet Directory vol. 1).

1950/51-1970/71 (gaps).

Hendon and Hampstead

Thomson's Local Directory

1982/83 to date (gaps).

Hornsey

Kelly's.

1938.

Kilburn including Willesden, Cricklewood and West Hampstead

Kelly's.

1896, 1920, 1921, 1925, 1931-1940.

St Marylebone

Kelly's.

1938.

St Pancras

James Giddings.

1862.

Simpson's.

1862.

W. Hogg and Co. Ltd (including Hampstead and Highgate).

1864.

Penfold and Farmer (Almanac and Parish Guide).

1882/84.

Borough Directories.

1963/64-1965/66.

Telephone directories

Central London and parts of North-West London

Residential and Business/Services. 

1954-1955 (gaps), 1968 to date (gaps).

Yellow pages.

1969 to date (gaps).