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This document has been created by AHDS History and is based on information supplied by the depositor SN 5121 - Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Somerset and Wales, 1880-1899 Study Documentation The Digital Library of Historical Directories is an online teaching and research resource produced and owned by the University of Leicester, located at www.historicaldirectories.org. It makes available high quality digitised reproductions of some 600 local and trade directories for England and Wales, for the period 1750-1919. For the purposes of deposit in the UK Data Archive, the collection has been divided into 35 studies on a regional basis. Digitisation involved scanning the hard- copy source to produce a graphic image of each page and then processing those images to generate a machinereadable text file (used on the website as the basis for searches). Both kinds of file have been deposited in the Data Archive. For each directory, the Archive therefore contains (1) a set of page images in the form of monochrome TIFF files, and (2) a single text file resulting from OCR of the TIFFs. In view of the large number of pages processed - totalling over 360,000 - it was impracticable to attempt any checking and correction of the OCR results. The accuracy of the text files is consequently rather variable. The directories contained in the present study are detailed in the following pages. The descriptions have been generated from those on the website and use similar fields, as follows: SOURCE ............. The title of the original volume. PUBLISHED .......... Publication details (place, publisher and year). REPOSITORY ......... The library or archive from which the volume was obtained. VOLUME NOTE ........ A comment on the volume used for digitisation (where appropriate), e.g. to note any missing pages. DIGITISATION NOTE .. A comment on the digitisation of the volume (where appropriate), e.g. to indicate that the digitised version of a large directory has been divided into two or more parts so as to facilitate online reference. HEADINGS ........... A series of up to 10 section headings, to outline the main content and structure of the directory. In the website version these also serve as hyperlinks for quick access to the relevant section. CONTENT NOTE ....... Additional description of the content (where appropriate) FEATURES ........... An indication of up to 3 features that inputters thought might be of interest to the user, e.g. illustrations. FEATURES NOTE ...... Additional comment on features such as illustrations (where appropriate). ID ................. An ID string for the digitised directory, consisting of a 3-letter repository code followed by numbers indicating the batch in which the directory was processed and the item number within the batch. IMAGE FILES ........ Details of the number and size of the TIFF image files. The files have automatic sequential filenames assigned by the OCR software, e.g. 0000BH7S.tif, 0000BH7T.tif ... TEXT FILE .......... Name and size of the text file resulting from OCR of the page images. SN 5121 - Digital Library of Historical Directories, 1750-1919: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, Somerset and Wales, 1880-1899 Page 1 of 14 Source ............. Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of North & South Wales, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, and the Cities of Bristol and Chester, with topographical notices of each city, town and village ... [1880. Part 1: N & S Wales] Published .......... Manchester: Slater, 1880 Repository ......... Cardiff Central Library, Frederick Street, St David's Link, Cardiff, CF10 2DU Volume Note ........ Digitisation Note .. The original directory was very large. The digitised version has been divided into 2 parts to help with online reference. This is Part 1 of 2. Headings ........... Title Page, Address & Indexes // North Wales // Bangor // Carnarvon // Flint // Wrexham // South Wales // Cardiff // Newport // Swansea Content Note ....... Historical and descriptive information is included along with directories for the towns, villages and parishes of North and South Wales. Features ........... Features Note ...... ID ................. CCL14012A Image Files ........ 624 files totalling 87.08 MB in folder CCL14012Atif Text File .......... CCL14012A_ocr.txt, 6.97 MB Slater's Directory of N & S Wales etc., 1880. [Part 1: N & S Wales] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Source ............. Slater's Royal National Commercial Directory of North & South Wales, Monmouthshire, Shropshire, and the Cities of Bristol and Chester, with topographical notices of each city, town and village ... [1880. Part 2: Shrops, Mon, Bristol & Chester] Published .......... Manchester: Slater, 1880 Repository ......... Cardiff Central Library, Frederick Street, St David's Link, Cardiff, CF10 2DU Volume Note ........ Digitisation Note .. The original directory was very large. The digitised version has been divided into 2 parts to help with online reference. This is Part 2 of 2. Headings ........... Title Page, Preface & Indexes // Monmouthshire // Caerleon // Monmouth // Shropshire // Ironbridge // Shrewsbury // Bristol // Chester // Advertisements Content Note ....... Features ........... Features Note ...... ID ................. CCL14012B Image Files ........ 637 files totalling 87.07 MB in folder CCL14012Btif Text File .......... CCL14012B_ocr.txt, 6.34 MB Slater's Directory of N & S Wales etc., 1880. [Part 2: Shrops, Mon, Bristol & Chester] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Page 2 of 14 Source ............. Butcher's Cardiff District Directory: including Pontypridd, Llandaff, etc., and the villages five miles round Cardiff ... [1880-81] Published .......... London: Butcher, 1881 Repository ......... Cardiff Central Library, Frederick Street, St David's Link, Cardiff, CF10 2DU Volume Note ........ Digitisation Note .. Pages 525-6 (on Llandaff) are missing. Headings ........... Title Page, Introduction & Contents // Advertisements // List of Advertisers // Cardiff // Cardiff Street Directory // Cardiff Private Residents // Cardiff Commercial Directory // Pontypridd - Llantrisant // Cowbridge - Penarth // Llandaff - St Mellons Content Note ....... The directory contains historical and geographical information as well as details about parliamentary representation and local institutions. Local Intelligence section contains postal, corporation and committee sections. There are advertisements throughout the directory. Features ........... Cardiff Population Figures Features Note ...... ID ................. CCL14013 Image Files ........ 546 files totalling 25.46 MB in folder CCL14013tif Text File .......... CCL14013_ocr.txt, 1.78 MB Butcher's Cardiff Directory, 1880-81 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Source ............. [Swansea Commercial Directory, 1881-82 (spine title)] Published .......... London: Butcher, 1881 Repository ......... Swansea Central Library, Alexandra Road, Swansea, SA1 5DX Volume Note ........ An extract from a larger volume (pp.241-476) Digitisation Note .. Headings ........... Swansea Commercial Directory // Swansea Classified Trades // Other Towns // Oystermouth & Mumbles // Neath // Briton Ferry // Llanelly Content Note ....... Features ........... Features Note ...... ID ................. SPL12009 Image Files ........ 228 files totalling 9.9 MB in folder SPL12009tif Text File .......... SPL12009_ocr.txt, 0.71 MB Butcher's Swansea Commercial Directory, 1881-82 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Page 3 of 14 Source ............. Butcher's Swansea District Directory, including Neath, Llanelly, The Mumbles, and the district round Swansea, including historical sketches of the neighbourhood, a street directory of Swansea, a classified trades directory of Swansea, local information, private residents' directories, and commercial directories of each place. [1881-82] Published .......... London: Butcher, 1881 Repository ......... Swansea Central Library, Alexandra Road, Swansea, SA1 5DX Volume Note ........ 3rd edition. The title page follows the introduction. Digitisation Note .. Headings ........... Introduction, Title Page & Contents // Alphabetical List of Advertisers // Swansea-Historical Sketch // Swansea Local Intelligence // Swansea Street Directory // Private Residents Directory // Commercial Directory // Classified Trades Directory // Nearby Towns & Localities Content Note ....... The directory includes a history of Swansea and details of local government and institutions. There is also information about schools, churches, places of amusement, railways and newspapers. Features ........... Features Note ...... ID ................. SPL12008 Image Files ........ 430 files totalling 20.18 MB in folder SPL12008tif Text File .......... SPL12008_ocr.txt, 1.22 MB Butcher's Swansea District Directory, 1881-82 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Page 4 of 14 Source ............