Trade Directories for The Potteries and Newcastle-under Lyme

Trade Directories of Staffordshire

A list of some early trade directories covering Staffordshire.

Staffordshire General & Commercial Directory for 1818.
Compiled by Messrs W Parson & T Bradshaw.
Published Manchester, 1818 in three parts:
Part I containing Newcastle-under-Lyme, the Potteries & Leek.
Part II containing Lichfield, Stafford & Tamworth (& a number of other towns) with the Neighbouring Villages.
Part III containing Bilston, Walsall, (etc) and the Whole of the South of the County of Stafford.
This directory was also published in one volume.

History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire.
by William White.
Published Sheffield, 1834.

History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire.
by William White.
Published Sheffield, 1851.

Harrison, Harrod & Co's Directory and Gazetteer of Staffordshire and Shropshire with Dudley in Worcestershire.
Published Harrison, Harrod & Co, London, 1861.

Jones's Mercantile Directory of the Pottery District of Staffordshire.
Published Jones & Proud, London, 1864.

Jones's Mercantile Directory of the Iron District of South Staffordshire and East Worcestershire.
Published Jones & Proud, London, 1865.

Keates & Ford's Annual Potteries and Newcastle Street and Trade Directory.
Published Keates & Ford, Hanley, 1865 & 1867.

Keate's Gazetteer and Directory of the Staffordshire Potteries, Newcastle and District.
Published J Keates, Hanley, 1869, 1873, 1875, 1879, 1882, 1889 & 1892.

White's Directory of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Wednesbury and the Principal Villages in the Hardware District.
by William White.
Published Sheffield, 1869.

J G Harrod & Co's Postal and Commercial Directory of Staffordshire.
Published Harrod JG & Co, Norwich, 1870.

White's Directory of Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Wednesbury and the Principal Villages in the Hardware District.
by William White.
Published Sheffield, 1873.

Postal Directory for the Potteries with Newcastle and District.
Published Rockliff Bros, Liverpool, 1887.

Hanley and Potteries District Trades Directory.
Published Town & Country Directories Ltd, Edinburgh, 1902, 1913 & 1917.

The Potteries, Newcastle and District Directory.
Published Staffordshire Sentinel Ltd, Hanley, 1907 & 1912.

Staffordshire Directory and Buyers Guide.
Published EF Cope & Co, Walsall.
24 Editions published for the years 1905, 1908, 1910-1914, 1916, 1921-1925, 1927-1936 & 1938.

Staffordshire Directory.
Published Aubrey & Co, Walsall.
8 Editions published for the years 1933-1940.

 

Pigot's & Slater's Directories of Staffordshire

James Pigot produced Pigot & Co's national directories in various combinations of counties and towns. Although some of his earlier directories include some Staffordshire towns (eg. the 1814/15 edition includes Leek and the 1816/17 edition includes Wolverhampton) the first edition with a specific Staffordshire section was the 1822/23 edition.

Other editions with a Staffordshire section were the 1828/29, 1835 & 1841/42 editions which were published in various combinations with other counties and sometimes re-issued in intervening years with a new date but the same information.

Following Pigot's death in 1843 his business partner, Isaac Slater took over publication of the directories. Editions of Slater's Directories with Staffordshire sections were published in 1850 and 1863.

In addition to the volumes listed above which covered the whole county he published in 1852 'Slater's Classified Directory of the Manufacturing District Fifteen Miles around Birmingham, including Worcester and the Potteries' which includes many Staffordshire towns.

 

Kelly's Directories of Staffordshire

The series of directories produced by Kelly & Co were originally published in volumes covering several counties until the late 1920s, however many of these multi-county editions have been split and rebound as single county volumes by libraries and booksellers and it is now common to find early editions covering Staffordshire only although the 1850 volume was originally published as 'The Post Office Directory of Birmingham with Staffordshire and Worcestershire' and subsequent volumes were published as 'Kelly's Directory of Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire'

Kelly's Directories covering Staffordshire were published in the following years:
1850  1854  1860  1864  1868  1872  1876  1880  1884  1888  1892  1896
1900  1904  1908  1912  1916  1921  1924  1928  1932  1936  1940

In addition to the volumes listed above which covered the whole county an earlier Kelly's Directory of Birmingham and Warwickshire published in 1845 also included the southern part of Staffordshire only.