Lobster, Canvey Island
Cricketers, Bethnal Green
Bow Bells, Bromley
George, Crawley
Eclipse, Islington
Brunel Hotel, Plymouth
The Cricketers, Richmond
Have you ever run a Pub? You can add your pub history to the UK pub history site. You can contact the pub history site via my email : Kevan. There are over 10,500 images on the site and 45,000 pages of pub history which increases every day.
This is a local search engine of the UK Pub history site. You can search by surname, street address, or public house name. There are nearly 50,000 pages of pub history detail in this search engine; which is mainly historical. New pubs and additional detail is added every day, and the search engine updates weekly. If you are looking for a specific pub history listing, some of these can only be found in the sitemap - see the navigation bar on the left.
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The pub history site was created by Kevan Wilding & Stephen Harris (from Ian Hunters original Essex pubs site). The pub history site now covers all of Essex, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset and parts of Lincoln and Leicester - not bad, ey?
The (deadpubs) pub history and historical street directory is a listing of open & closed
Pubs which show the address changes through time, and obviously from a historical
perspective. It
concentrates on the many road name changes through the years because of slum clearance, road renaming and modern office building. The
site lists Pubs and their history in their original church parishes; and
attempts to describe the towns through the past two hundred years. It is the
culmination of many years work by countless contributors, and continues to grow.
I am still hoping that the likes of google will do this in a visual aspect by
the use of maps.
A good example on the site is London. London is very
interesting in itself, it bore the brunt of the WWII bombings, as did many other places, but also went through a road renaming process
between 1938 and 1944. Many of
the roads with similar names were simply renamed to distinct road names. This is where the
1944 listing of Pubs is incredibly
important, now complete, and unique to this site - it lists all named pubs and beer retailers
who were trading in 1944. You can then match the Pub or address
with that in 1938 or earlier through the search engine! This is why I refer to
this as the historical
London & the south of England street directory at its best using historical pubs
as a basis for continued research. Other areas of the UK in the south are
similarly portrayed, although London is an easier area to work on, if rather
huge.
Pubs, like churches move slowly over a period of time, I use this to my
advantage.
The site lists original content on Pub History, Census and Trade
Directory entries from the Post Office , Kelly and Pigots Trade Directories,
Petty Session Victuallers records etc. for the last two hundred years. The
public houses are listed by church parish as they would have existed before 1900
- many of these are no longer in existence. Google has mapped vast areas in
its street view and modern maps, Ordnance Survey are releasing their maps to the
wider community. Historical maps
are a must in this research.
There is a search engine on every page of the site. This
includes the approximately 50,000 pages of pubs and pub history I have added
over the last ten years. It is quite comprehensive, but will never be complete.
You can use the simple search engine to search for a particular person, and
address or a Pub. It is a simple search engine using key words in the pages, and
I am planning on improving in the near future, to search on phrases. More to
follow on this - enjoy the pubs history site.
Here are some random historical and new images of the many thousands of images on the pub history site:
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Lobster, Canvey Island |
Cricketers, Bethnal Green |
Bow Bells, Bromley |
George, Crawley |
Eclipse, Islington |
Brunel Hotel, Plymouth |
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The Cricketers, Richmond |
The pub history directory is an important tool in searching for addresses in the towns that have changed over time. This site lists historical Public Houses site and Directory listings, and has entries generally up until 1944 at the latest. If there is not an entry for a year, it is because I do not have this information, please help to complete the data. The pub history site is updated on a daily basis by the many regular contributors and the search engine updates on a weekly basis.