LHG Bibliography: Lewes Directories

Lewes Directory holdings in Lewes Library, The Keep, Sussex Archaeological Society Library (SAS), and Sussex Family History Group (SFHG)

See also:

• John Farrant’s Sussex Directories 1784-1975, Fourth edition, 2002
• University of Leicester’s Historical Directories of Sussex online
• Regional or county directories, such as Kelly’s, Post Office, Pigot’s, which contain sections on Lewes – paper copies are held by various libraries and The Keep
• Brent, Colin; Brent, Judith, Lewes House Histories, in 5 volumes: Lewes High Street; Lewes Borough: side streets North and South; Cliffe and Malling [Part] 1681-1910; Southover; Western Road North: East to West, 2014.
  Lists owners of houses, some up to 1910, but most up to the late 19th Century.
  Available at The Keep, the Sussex Archaeological Society Library, and digitised full text.

 

Directories listed in date order:

Directory of Lewes 1812, by T. Woollgar (copied from Woollgar MSS)
SAS

Occupiers and Proprietors of the Houses in Lewes when the Same were Numbered in 1812, Transcribed by S. Godman from Tomkies Directory [no date]
SAS

Pigot and Co., London and Provincial Directory 1823-24 [Extract for Lewes]
SAS (not found March 2015)

Simpson’s Lewes Directory 1865
The Keep

Brent, Colin, Lewes in 1871 : a household and political directory, University of Sussex Centre for Continuing Education, 1978 (Occasional Papers, No. 9)

The Lewes, Newhaven Directory for 1881-2. Published by W. Tomkies? Transcribed by S. Godman?
SAS, Lewes Library (not found March 2015)

Holman’s Lewes Directory 1882
The Keep, SAS (not found March 2015)

Holman’s Lewes Directory 1883
Lewes Library, SAS

Holman’s Lewes Directory, and Guide 1887
SAS

John Davis & Co.’s Lewes Directory 1896
SAS

John Davis & Co.’s Lewes Directory 1898
SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1900-1901
The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1902
The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1903
The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1905
The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1906
Lewes Library, The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1907
The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1909
Lewes Library, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1909-1910
Lewes Library

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1910-1911 (11^th year)
Lewes Library, The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1912-13 (13^th year)
SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1913-14 (14^th year)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1914-1915 (15^th year)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1915-1916 (16^th year)
Lewes Library, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1916-1917 (17^th year)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1917-1918 (18^th year)
Lewes Library, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1920-21 (19^th year)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1922-23 (20^th year)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1924-25 (21^st year)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1927-1928 (22^nd year)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1929-1930 (23^rd year)
Lewes Library, The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1931-32 (24^th issue)
Lewes Library, The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1932-1934 (25^th issue)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1934-36 (26^th issue)
Lewes Library, The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local Directory 1936-1938 (27^th issue)
Lewes Library, The Keep

Pike’s Lewes, Seaford and Newhaven Blue Book and Local 1938-40
Lewes Library (not found March 2015), The Keep, SAS

Lewes, Newhaven and Seaford District Directory 1951-1952 (Silver Eagle Publications)
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1957
Lewes Library, SAS, The Keep

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1960
Lewes Library, The Keep

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1962
Lewes Library, SAS, The Keep

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1964
Lewes Library, The Keep

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1966
Lewes Library, The Keep

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1968
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS, SFHG

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1969
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS, SFHG

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1970
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Kelly’s Tradefinder of Lewes 1970
Lewes Library

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1971
Lewes Library, The Keep

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1972
Lewes Library, The Keep, SAS

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1973
Lewes Library, The Keep

Kelly’s Tradefinder of Lewes 1973
Lewes Library, SAS

Kelly’s Directory of Lewes 1974
Lewes Library, The Keep

Kelly’s Tradefinder of Lewes 1974
SAS

 

Compiled by Barbara Merchant, March 2015
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