Directories
Note:
These pages list indexes available to the public at the Bolton History Centre, the home of the Archives and Local Studies Unit.
The left hand menu lists which indexes are available, or you can view the more detailed Archives Indexes contents page
Further indexes of use to Family historians
The collection consists of printed trade and commercial directories and also telephone directories of Bolton and the surrounding area.
Although the trade and commercial directories are mainly commercial in nature, many of them contain alphabetical lists of residents. They were not published annually.
Trade and Commercial Directories
1787, 1805, 1814-1815, 1816-1817, 1818,
1821-1822, 1824, 1829, 1834, 1836, 1838,
1843, 1845, 1849, 1851, 1853, 1861, 1865,
1870, 1874, 1876, 1881, 1882, 1885, 1887,
1888, 1889, 1890, 1890-1893, 1894-1895,
1896-1898, 1899-1904, 1907, 1911, 1916,
1921, 1922, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1932,
1934, 1953, 1955, 1967, 1971
Telephone Directories, including Yellow Pages
- Bolton and District: 1956 to date
