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Crafts, Trades and Industries
1951-1981
This subseries contains items on traditional crafts, trades and industries. The subjects represented include crafts in Warwickshire and Ireland, terminology relating to wheelwrighting, Sam Hanna's fil...
Robson's London commercial directory, street guide, and carriers' list for 1821
Robson, William A (1895-1980); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Wing, Mark?
1821
The classification of trades is vol. 2.
Wrightson's new triennial directory of Birmingham, including an alphabetical list of the merchants, tradesmen and respectable inhabitants of the town, the different trades arranged under their own particular heads, and the departures and arrivals of the various mails, coaches, waggons, boats, and every other conveyance / embellished with plates engraved purposely for this work. Embellished with plates, engraved purposely for this work
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Jones, George
1818
Engraved plates include trade cards.
The interest of Scotland considered : with regard to its police [sic] in imploying of the poor, its agriculture, its trade, its manufactures, and fisheries
Lindsay, Patrick (1686-1753)
1733
Bookseller's advertisement, p. [2] at end. Attributed to Patrick Lindsay in NUC pre-1956.
The directory of Birmingham; including an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the town; a classification of its merchants, manufacturers, &c. A new arrangement of mails, coaches, and carriers; together with an alphabetical street directory, &c
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1839
Plates engraved by Radclyffe & Co. and others.
The directory of Birmingham; including an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the town; a classification of its merchants, manufacturers, professions, and trades; and a list of the railways, mails, coaches, and carriers by land and water, conveniently arranged for reference; together with a street directory, &c
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1843
Plates engraved by W Radclyffe and others.
Wrightson's annual directory of Birmingham, including an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the town; a complete classification of trades; a new arrangement of mails, coaches, and carriers, under the places to which they go; a list of all the civil officers of the town, public institutions, and places of divine worship with the times of services &c. &c. Embellished with plates, engraved purposely for this work
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Cheston, Charles
1829-30
Plates engraved by J Butler, Charles Askey and others.
The directory of Birmingham; including an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the town; a classification of its merchants, manufacturers, &c. A new arrangement of mails, coaches, and carriers; a list of the civil officers of the town; together with an alphabetical street directory, &c. &c
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1835
Plates engraved by T Radclyffe, Powell & Wakeman and others.
The directory of Birmingham; including an alphabetical list of the principal inhabitants of the town and the vicinities of Edgbaston, Handsworth, Aston, Highgate and Balsall Heath; a full and complete classification of its merchants, manufacturers, professions, and trades, of the town and neighbourhood. Also a list of the railways, mails, coaches, and carriers by land and water, conveniently arranged for reference; together with a street directory, &c. &c
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Hazlitt, Peter
1847
Established upwards of thirty-five years above title.
New Birmingham Directory; containing an alphabetical list of the merchants, manufacturers, and principal inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood; the mails, coaches, vans, waggons, carriers, & canal conveyances; a classification of trades, also the principal manufacturers, &c. in Bilston, Darlaston, Dudley, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Redditch, Stourbridge, Walsall, Wednesbury, West Bromwich, Willenhall & Wolverhampton; a list of bankers in England, Wales and Scotland and the houses on which they draw in London. Stamp duties; fire offices; population tables, &c
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Price, Thomas (1797-1851); Ward, William; Ward and Price
1823
Engraved plates include trade cards.
Wrightson's new triennial directory of Birmingham, including an alphabetical list of the merchants, tradesmen and respectable inhabitants of the town; the different trades arranged under their own particular heads; and the departures and arrivals of the various mails, coaches, waggons, boats, and every other conveyance / embellished with plates engraved purposely for this work. Embellished with plates, engraved purposely for this work
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1815
Engraved plates include trade cards.
Wrightson's triennial directory of Birmingham, including an alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the town, a complete classification of trades, a new arrangement of mails, coaches, and carriers, under the places to which they go. A correct list of the manufacturers, &c. of the neighbouring towns connected with the trade of Birmingham, viz. West Bromwich, Wednesbury, Willenhall, Darlaston, Rilston, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, Kidderminster, Walsall, Hales Owen, Alcester, and Redditch. A list of all the civil officers of the town, public institutions, and places of divine worship with the times of services &c. &c. Embellished with plates, engraved purposely for this work
Wrightson, Robert (1807-1850); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)
1825
Plates engraved by Wrightson, J Allen, F Eginton, John Tye and others.