Street Directories

A shelf of street directories, available on open access in the Record Office search room

• Directories list tradespeople and householders, rather like a present-day telephone directory.
• They also include useful general information, for example on schools, churches and charities.
• New editions were produced at intervals, usually every other year or every year.
• Areas which lay outside the city boundary until the 20th century such as Twerton and Weston, are included in the ‘Village Directories’ at the end of each volume.
• The Record Office holds directories for the period 1833-1974.