Baines's History of Liverpool

This huge, beautifully bound book is essential to genealogists and family historians as it provides an insight as to how our ancestors lived and what the places that they lived in were like.    

Price:  £15.11

Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield 1825/6 Pigot's Directory

An unusual Pigot's classified trade directory, that covers 6 major manufacturing towns in England.    

Price:  £9.79

Forty Miles Around Manchester

There is only one word that is suitable to describe this book....... Stunning. If your ancestors lived within forty miles of Manchester you will find this book absolutely fascinating.    

Price:  £15.11

Lancashire 1858 Post Office Directory

Bound into three huge volumes, this is a fabulously comprehensive directory of the whole of the county including Liverpool and Manchester.    

Price:  £21.70

Liverpool & Suburbs 1938 Kelly's (Gore's) Directory

A huge directory with more than 2,300 pages covering Liverpool, Bootle, Birkenhead, Wallasey and environs.    

Price:  £17.87

Liverpool 1796 Gore's Directory

A very early alphabetical list of the tradesmen, merchants and principal inhabitants of Liverpool.    

Price:  £9.79

Liverpool 1821 Gore's Directory

Another very early directory listing the merchants, trades people and principal inhabitants of the town in 1821.    

Price:  £9.79

Liverpool 1843 Gore's Directory

One of the very rare directories specifically for one town. This Liverpool & District Directory is absolutely superb. It is a thick and very comprehensive directory.    

Price:  £15.11

Liverpool 1860 Gore's Directory

An absolutely superb directory of the City of Liverpool and its suburbs. This is without doubt one of the best directories from this period.    

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Liverpool 1881 Kelly's Directory

The directory is excellently indexed making it easy to find relatives and details about their trade. It also has an interesting description of the town in 1881.    

Price:  £15.11

Liverpool As It Was 1775 to 1800

An incredibly detailed historical account of the city as it was in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. Fully searchable in Adobe Acrobat Reader.    

Price:  £15.11

Liverpool's First Directory, 1766

This incredibly early directory. As well as having a list of names and addresses of inhabitants, it also has a professional and street directory. A fantastic little book, essential for those with Liverpool ancestors.    

Price:  £9.79

Northern Counties 1855 Combined Slater's Directory

CHESHIRE, CUMBERLAND, LANCASHIRE & WESTMORLAND Includes Cumberland, Lancashire (with Liverpool and Manchester) and Westmoreland, all of the advertisements and beautiful county maps.    

Price:  £16.17

Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonegenarian

At the very start of this fascinating book the author writes " I was born in Liverpool, on the 4th of June in 1769 0r 1770. I am consequently about ninety-three years old. My friends say I am a wonderful man. I belive I am........ I can recollect every occurrrence that has fallen under my cognizance, since I was six years old" Mr Hughes then delivers a superb recollection of a very wide range of subjects such as the 'cruelty of town boys' and the 'state of the streets'. All manner of events, places and people are described here. Fully searchable in Adobe Acrobat Reader.    

Price:  £9.79

The City of Liverpool 1884, 1900 & 1923 Lists of Streets

A very unusual and rare series of three separate books compiled by the City Engineer for use by various council departments. Every street in the city is documented along with details of adoption dates (when the council assumed responsibility for its maintenance), measurements, re-naming details and dates etc. Each book is in a printed format with many hand written additions and amendments made by, in this case, the Roads Department. This is an invaluable set of records which will be of immense use to all family historians with ancestors in the City of Liverpool.    

Price:  £17.87

The Irish in Britain

Published in 1892 by the Liverpool author, journalist and political activist John Denvir. While Denvir's outlook is clearly political, the publication contains a wealth of useful data about this neglected topic. One of the most important sources we have about the nineteenth century Irish in Britain, as witnessed by its continued inclusion on university reading lists.     ISBN 1-84630-097-5

Price:  £16.90

The Liverpool Guide, 1801

A sketch of the environs with a map of the town and directions for sea bathing. Includes chapters on amongst other topics, the local Air, Soil and Population, Bankers, the benevolent society, Churches, Coffee Houses, Docks, Ferry Boats, Hackney Coaches, Inns, taverns and Lunatic Asylums, Post offices, Poor Houses, Theatres and much more. A very descriptive and detailed tour around Liverpool at the turn of the century.    

Price:  £9.79

The Stranger in Liverpool - An Historical & Descriptive View of the Town - 1836

A wonderful account of the 'Town' including ancient history, the docks, public buildings, improvements, places of worship, charities, markets and surveys of the town and its environs. Fully searchable in Adobe Acrobat Reader.    

Price:  £15.11

The Streets of Liverpool

Published around 1880, the author describes each street and gives anecdotes about events that occurred in each one. His description includes the type of houses built, who lived in them and their trade.    

Price:  £9.79