Last updated:
5th August 2024
Street directories
Historic street directories held at Wokingham Library
Book stock
Shelved on the Local Studies bookshelves:
- Kelly’s Berks, Bucks and Oxon 1854
- Kelly’s Berkshire 1895, 1911
- Postal Directory of Reading 1919
- Kelly’s Reading 1929
- Kelly’s Berks, Bucks and Oxon 1931
- Kelly’s Reading 1934
- Kelly’s Berks, Bucks and Oxon 1935
- Kelly’s Reading 1937
- Kelly’s Berkshire 1939
- Kelly’s Reading 1949, 1952, 1956
- Times Wokingham, Bracknell etc. 1957
- Kelly’s Reading 1960, 1962
- Walton’s Berkshire 1968/9
- Reading, Berks and Oxford Trades Directory 1971
- Kelly’s Reading 1976
Pamphlet boxes
Photocopied pages of Private Residents’ and Commercial Lists from the following street directories:
- Berkshire 1796
- Robson 1840
- Snare’s 1842, 1843, 1847
- Billings 1854
- Macaulay’s 1856
- Kelly’s 1864
- Lock’s 1870
- Smith’s 1875, 1876
- Kelly’s 1877
- Smith’s 1878
- Kelly’s 1883, 1887
- Melville’s 1887
- Kelly’s 1891, 1895, 1899, 1903, 1907, 1911, 1915, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1931, 1935, 1939
- Aubrey’s 1940
Wokingham Remembered
5 Volumes, each covering a different street: Market Place, Rose Street, Peach Street, Denmark Street, Broad Street. Contains information on each building in the street, compiled from directories covering 1828 to 1971.
- Section 1: 1828 to 1899, arranged alphabetically by name of trader, as there weren’t formal street numbers.
- Directories used: 1828/30, 1840, 1842, 1844, 1847, 1850, 1854, 1863, 1864, 1867, 1868, 1877, 1883, 1887, 1891, 1895, 1899
- Section 2: 1899 to 1971, arranged by street number.
- Directories used: 1899, 1903, 1907, 1911, 1915, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1931, 1932, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1950/51, 1952/53, 1955, 1957/58, 1968/69, 1971