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Tracing Your Police Ancestors - A Guide for Family Historians by Stephen Wade
This book will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information, Stephen Wade explains and describes the various archives and records and provides a discussion of other sources. Case studies are used to show how an individual officer's career may be traced and understood from this r... More Info
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CD43 General Indexes to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of London
CD 43 General Indexes to Old Ordnance Survey Maps of London (Godfrey Edition). Research in Victorian London very soon gives rise to the question "where is such-and-such a street?". It may be on a modern map, but quite often is not. The re-publication of early Ordnance Survey 1:2500 maps in the reduced scale Godfrey Edition gives the researcher a chance but, even if the street is on the sheet one h...More Info
Atlas of London circa 1908
By J & A Catlyn, published by Cyrene Publications (2003). 20 coloured maps of Central London, with searchable Index to over 7000 streets computer-linked to the maps. An Index to 1000 places of interest in London and 16 maps of the Environs of London. Included is a small eight-page booklet advising on how to make the best use of this CD.
CD16 Early 20th Century London: Maps, Street Names and Schools
Compiled and indexed by Chris Willis, edited by Sue Turner, Nov 2009. This CD contains the six Board School Maps of London, produced in 1906/7 by the London Schools Authorities. They were based on the 6" Ordnance Survey stock of the time and over printed with boundaries of the areas used in controlling the schools and also with the actual schools. To provide an index into the maps, a Street index ...More Info
The End of the Line - the story of the railway service to the Great Northern London Cemetery
King's Cross station was linked to the Great Northern Cemetery by a special train service which took funeral parties from central London to the outskirts where burial space was more readily available. This was a short lived service unlike that in south London. Many of London's institutions made use of the service and records of burials are available from the New Southgate Cemetery.
The London of Charles Dickens Junior, 1879.
published by J & A Catlyn, November 2004. Over 3,300 streets indexed and linked to maps. Covering streets from Hyde Park to Limehouse and Highbury to Battersea Park. Includes many scanned directory pages which give an insight into London life in 1879. Published in a similar style to their previous publication Atlas & Guide of London, c1908, which will allow for easy comparison between the two maps...More Info