Pub History of London, Essex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset & Dorset.

The pub history site was created by Kevan Wilding & Stephen Harris (from Ian Hunters original Essex pubs site). The pub history site now covers all of Essex, London, Kent, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Middlesex, Suffolk, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Sussex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Devon, Somerset  and parts of Lincoln and Leicester - not bad, ey?

The (deadpubs) pub history and historical street directory is a listing of open & closed Pubs which show the address changes through time, and obviously from a historical perspective. It concentrates on the many road name changes through the years because of slum clearance, road renaming and modern office building. The site lists Pubs and their history in their original church parishes; and attempts to describe the towns through the past two hundred years. It is the culmination of many years work by countless contributors, and continues to grow.

London is very interesting in itself, it bore the brunt of the WWII bombings, as did many other places, but also went through a road renaming process between 1938 and 1944. Many of the roads with similar names were simply renamed to distinct road names. This is where the 1944 listing of Pubs is incredibly important, now complete, and unique to this site - it lists all named pubs and beer retailers who were trading in 1944. You can then match the Pub or address with that in 1938 or earlier through the search engine! This is the historical London & the south of England street directory at its best using historical pubs as a basis for continued research.

Pubs, like churches move slowly over a period of time, I use this to my advantage. The site lists original content on Pub History, Census and Trade Directory entries from the Post Office , Kelly and Pigots Trade Directories, Petty Session Victuallers records etc. for the last two hundred years. The public houses are listed by church parish as they would have existed before 1900 - many of these are no longer in existence. Google has mapped vast areas in its street view and modern maps, Ordnance Survey are releasing their maps to the wider community. Historical maps are a must in this research.

Here are some random historical and new images of the many thousands of images on the pub history site:

Lobster, Canvey Island	Cricketers, Bethnal Green	Bow Bells, Bromley
George, Crawley	Eclipse, Islington	Brunel Hotel, Plymouth
	The Cricketers, Richmond

The pub history directory is an important tool in searching for addresses in the towns that have changed over time. This site lists historical Public Houses site and Directory listings, and has entries up until 1944 at the latest. If there is not an entry for a year, it is because I do not have this information, please help to complete the data. Not all Pubs are dead Pubs. The deadpubs site is updated on a daily basis by the many regular contributors.