Pub History Links.

If you can supply any good material to this site, please contact me - full acknowledgements AND links back to your site (if required) are added to the page. I am always interested in any good pictures, or personal genealogical details of a Public House.

1. Thanks to the site at victorianlondon.org which holds a fantastic array of London in Victorian Times material, OLD maps, links, interesting articles and can all be purchased on a CD. I bought a copy. I particularly like to use the 1901 Pocket Atlas of London - I have full permission, but purchase your own CD, they are only about £12, and brilliant value.

1a Essex 1841 census & Essex Record Office SEAX database, which is an amazing search engine. And do follow the links in the navigation to all Pub History on this site, including London, Essex, Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Middlesex, Oxfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Berkshire, Suffolk etc.

1b Pubs by Ewan, and a whole host of pictures on the flicker. Ewan tells me I can use any of these, but I have yet to find the time - so enjoy his pubs & pictures.

1c. A brilliant site for viewing the early Trade Directories of much of England is at the University of Leicester digital library. The project has completed, but the array of information available to search and download is very impressive. The site can not always be guaranteed to respond, so be patient, it is a very busy site. The site covers the whole of England, and is amazing.

2. Keith Emmerson's  Beer site which was/is highly useful in listing current Public Houses, their Real Ale Beers, ownership, current state, and lots of other interesting comments on a Public House including demolition dates! Also, try the Pigs Ear  CAMRA site [cockney slang for beer, I hear]. I am getting a lot of useful data and pictures from the CAMRA guys, thank you.

2a. The London Gazette Online has an archive, which is absolutely amazing; I just do not have the time to peruse all of the great information - please let me know if you find something useful for the site, please.

2b. I get email from all sorts of old pub sites, this is one of the better ones, the Dead Pubs Society - I enjoyed visiting it.

2c. The Pub History Society was set up to bring together anyone interested in the British pub and its history. Visit out site to find out more. www.pubhistorysociety.co.uk

2e The Old Bailey online - excellent resource, with lots of Pubs included in the cases. This is also accessible from the London Lives site, which is a database of pre 1800 London records.

2f The Hertfordshire CAMRA database is a very useful resource

3. The Essex Pubs Site originally built by Ian Hunter, who sadly died. His site has been resurrected by his friends, and is updated on a daily basis. It is a genealogical piece of wizardry, plus lots of pictures, old and new. Parts of the Essex Pubs now in London are regularly updated on this site with permission of the owner.

Also; The Olympics Zone area over the ages - maps and links to the area from past generations. This site is the reason I decided to do a London Pubs site, to cash in on the Olympics in 2012.  Well, things have changed, and the Olympics will be successful with me or without me! Here is a walk round the Olympics Zone in 2006

4. Never ignore the Genuki site listings, they are sometimes hard to find your way about - but not the London Listing @  http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/LND/ - a brilliant & updated page. there are lots of similar links to here, and much other useful info too.

4a The Dover Pubs history site is pretty good; and covers a host more than Dover.

4b. Well, I have been working on a new site for the History of Stratford - it's new, but it will be as good as one of my better sites! This site is also known as games for London . com - they are the same site! The site includes the History of Stratford, West Ham, Canning Town, Silvertown, Romford, Hornchurch, Great Warley, Little Warley, Wennington & Rainham, plus more as I feel like adding them.

4c. Probably should be higher is the London Metropolitan Archives - brilliant place to visit or contact for information, and pictures for a nominal fee. I have only spent a day or two here, so far, but more to follow as time permits.

4e. There is a new picture of the Blackwall Tunnel entrance, from about 1899. I was so impressed with this, that some new pages were considered. Why? The information is already available in good search engines, and then I found this site - Port Cities London - Brilliant.

As an aside, imagery in any web page make a complete transformation of any site. The  Essex Pub site contains about 1500 images, plus a similar number of separate Public Houses, plus lots of personal family stories.

There are many good sites that allow personal use of a picture, these are worth searching for, and a greater list will be added as time permits. You can save them all onto your personal computer.

The Hackney Archives has a fantastic array of photographs that I cannot copy due to copyright, but do enjoy them; I often wander through the 43 pages of pictures in admiration. I hit a similar problem with the Brighton archives the other day. they like their pound of flesh, it is sad that these images are not available for sensible web administrators to use - never mind.

6. Maps - there are a great deal of useful maps available on the internet - see the Maps page for some of the best, MAPCO has to be the best site, but there are others, and they are all free. Take a look at their paid advertising occasionally, it helps to cover their  costs, and costs you nothing.

7. A good link from here, for pictures is Ken Finchs Bethnal Green Photo Archive - excellent.

7a. I have noted this site a few times when searching for London addresses - it is rather excellent and specifically is about Music Halls & Theatres, but has a mass of other information and pictures - arthurlloyd.co.uk

8, The wayback machine - Wow, this is a useful site - it saves an OLD copy [sometimes] of a web site from 'way back',

11. A rather interesting site is of the 1883 Blacks Guide to England & Wales - I enjoy it enough to want to link to the site

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Search the London & Southern England Pub History site and Street directory by historical Pub name, surname or street address. The Pub history site is a major historical street directory which lists mainly Pubs and street name changes between about 1840 and 1940. The site is updated every day. Contact: Kevan with any updates and additions.

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The historical trade directory and census listing of all of London, Essex, Kent, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire Oxfordshire, and Dorset. If you are searching for a historical address, try the census and street directory database. This is a Victorian view on the streets of london and the south of England.

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