Extract from an enormous directory (pictured at left) covering Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire. Contains an index, a typically thorough directory of Staffordshire, and all the advertisements. The Staffordshire section contains town/village, court, commercial and official directories. Kindly loaned to the project by Warwickshire County Libraries.

Extract from an enormous directory (pictured at left) covering Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire. Contains an index, a typically thorough directory of Staffordshire, and all the advertisements. The Staffordshire section contains town/village, court, commercial and official directories. Kindly loaned to the project by Warwickshire County Libraries.

Extract from an enormous directory (pictured at left) covering Birmingham, Staffordshire, Warwickshire & Worcestershire. Contains an index, a typically thorough directory of Staffordshire, and all the advertisements. The Staffordshire section contains town/village, court, commercial and official directories. Kindly loaned to the project by Warwickshire County Libraries.

Contains the usual detail (pp 1,106) from Kelly's for the whole of Staffordshire. Sections on traders and residents by town/village, commercial directory (alphabetic for the county and classified by trade), with a description of the county and its main public institutions. Kindly loaned to the project by Dudley Archives & Local History Service.

A huge directory covering Staffordshire in 1940. One of the great advantages of a "late" directory such as this is that it is so easy to trace heads of household either by name or street address. (In the main towns each street, and every numbered house is there, together with the head of household and their occupation). Don't think of it as being just a 1940 resource. You will find all branches of your family and their addresses, and then go look at those same addresses in all earlier resources. That's the kind of information that will pull down those brick walls in your earlier research. Kindly loaned to the project by Dudley Archives & Local History Service..