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From: "Louise English" <>
Subject: [GRUMMITT] CDBOOKS-NEWS
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 07:56:45 -0000


Below are some of the latest releases from Archive CD Books that are about
the areas where some of our GRUMMITTS lived - I know that quite a few of the
families came from Lincolnshire, and mine (originally from Bedfordshire)
certainly ended up in London.

Louise

I use Archive CD Books to help with my research
http://www.archivecdbooks.org

LATEST CD RELEASES THIS WEEK
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/books/new/index.htm

3. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1900
Contains wonderful descriptions of each place's local history and civic
amenities such as schools, churches and hospitals plus directories of
private residents and commercial traders in each town, village and
hamlet.
see Lincolnshire directories page
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/Archive_CD_Books_Directories_161.html

4. Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1930
Many people quite wrongly dismiss early and mid-twentieth century
directories. Whilst it is true that the 1930's are easily within living
memory, the people contained in these types of records could easily have
been born as early as the 1870's and will very likely have appeared in
the 1901 census as young adults or children. A directory such as this
can really help you piece together your Victorian ancestors' whereabouts
and occupations in their middle and later years.
see Lincolnshire directories page
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/Archive_CD_Books_Directories_161.html


7. 1934 London Post Office Directory
This is the 135th edition of The London Post Office Directory and is
very special as it was the first to combine the Central London and the
Subarban Districts into one book, thereby creating a single source for
the whole of London.
see London Directories page
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/Archive_CD_Books_Directories_124.html

8. 1938 London Post Office Directory
Only a few short years after this book was published a huge number of
the businesses and private residences in it had simply vanished due to
the wholesale destruction of the capital by German bombs.
see London Directories page
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/Archive_CD_Books_Directories_124.html

9. Wonderful London - St John Adcock
Published in the 1920's in three large volumes with, literally, hundreds
of superb photographs of all aspects of London life. Rich or poor, old
or young, the slums and palaces, there are even some which are captioned
'a view of xxxx from an exciting new vantage point' (an aeroplane!!).
The text matches the quality of the images and is wonderfully evocative.
It is quite sad to realise that very little of what we can see in this
book remains standing today due to slum clearance, war-time bombing and
the inexorable march of 'progress'.
see London history & topography page
http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/Archive_CD_Books_History_and_Topography_1
26.html


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