Street directories

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