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Trade Directories & Town Guides

Trade Directories

Trade Directories are invaluable research tools for people studying Local or Family history. The amount of information varies with the Directory and its date, but usually provides the name of relatively affluent private residents, and a wide range and size of businesses and shops. Also sometimes included is general and historical information about local towns and cities, such as official establishments, council officers, local institutions, churches, schools, etc.

Here we offer word-searchable transcriptions of the Kidderminster section of a few selected Directories. You are welcome to download them for your personal use:

Trade Directories

Town Guides

Broadfield Guide to Kidderminster 1889

Click on the image or click on the following link to view the directory (as an image-based) PDF file:

Broadfield Guide to Kidderminster 1889

Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number 1903

Reproduced courtesy of Roger Watkins and digitised by Bob Millward

To view this Guide, click on the image or the following link.

Kidderminster Shuttle Industrial Number

Mates Illustrated Guide – Kidderminster 1908

Reproduced courtesy of Roger Watkins and digitised by Bob Millward

To view this Guide, click on the image or the following link.

Mates Guide to Kidderminster