*Archive* Birmingham Trade Directory 1776

[Carol]

Hi, Just bought a copy of the above reprinted in 1896. It has indexes for Names and Occupations so let me have your look up requests before I loose it in my ever growing library!

[Northern Lass]

Hi, Just bought a copy of the above reprinted in 1896. It has indexes for Names and Occupations so let me have your look up requests before I loose it in my ever growing library!

Good stuff Carol
going to move to General discussion and will put a copy in the look up offers too!
So thanks

[gardener]

I wonder why they did that? Reprinted in 1896 it was 120 years out of date! Not much point trying to find a plasterer to fix your wall if he had been dead for almost a century

[Maths girl]

[quote="gardener"]I wonder why they did that? Reprinted in 1896 it was 120 years out of date! Not much point trying to find a plasterer to fix your wall if he had been dead for almost a century [/quote]

That echos my childrens comment when I excitedly tell them I have found another link - "But Mother they are all DEAD!!"

[Carol]

I think it just shows there must have been keen historians even back in 1896 who were fascinated with so many changed in only 120 years. Birmingham must have changed more than most places in that time span. I wonder what they would think if they fast forwarded to see it today.