Yorkshire CD books
Old and rare Yorkshire books on CDrom or as pdf file downloads
"History and Directory of East Yorkshire"
by Bulmer
andTopographical Dictionary of Yorkshire
by Thomas Langdale
CD ROM and
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produced by Yorkshire CD books ©
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The data
on this CD rom/
downloadable pdf is computer searchable.
Bulmer's 1892:
This book covers the whole of the East Riding, including Hull
.The format of theBulmer's book is a fairly standard "History
and Directory" format, with the Histories being more detailed
than the equivalent White's/Pigot's/Baines'. The 1892 East Yorkshire
book has some 1233 pages plus about 20 pages of advertisements.
Most of the Directory of Trades and Professions sections (roughly
equivalent of todays Yellow Pages) are divided into "Farmers"
and "others". The town of Hull (now a city) however
has some 500 pages devoted to it and includes both alphabetic
by surname and alphabetic by trade/profession - the same names
do not always occur in both for some reason. Also included is
an alphabetical street directory.
In order to give you a better idea of the information in the book the following items are available here on line:
- A transcription of the Subjects, Persons and Families
indexes for the combined volumes is given here.
- The introduction, index to places, index to adverts. and list of seats and residences of the nobility is given here in Adobe Acrobat format.
The above Acrobat file was extracted from the CDrom and shows the quality of the images. You will need at least version 5 of Acrobat to open this file. If you do not have an up to date version please go to the Adobe web-site to obtain a free version of Acrobat Reader.
Langdale's Topographical Dictionary, 1822:
This book contains no directories, only Topographical information.
It is however comprehensive in its coverage, covering Towns, Villages
and Hamlets, and in some cases giving single houses too. The information
given is divided into three Ridings, the Ainsty and City of York
being included with the West Riding. Also included is a list of
magistrates and Deputy Lieutenants for each of the Ridings, with
Officers of the Liberties where relevant.
At the back of the book is:
- a description of the Rivers and Canals,
- a list of the Viscounts and High Sheriffs of the county
- a list of the eminent men noticed in the book
- the names of Noblemen and Gentlemen who have seats in the
county
The quality of the printing of this book is anything but good
in some places and should really be scanned in photographic mode.
However to do this requires two CD roms for this book alone due
to the resulting files being so large, so it is presented to you
as black and white with every page being readable but the text
not being as good as I would have liked it to have been.
The above Acrobat files were extracted from the CDrom and shows the quality of the images. You will need at least version 5 of Acrobat to open this file. If you do not have an up to date version please go to the Adobe web-site to obtain a free version of Acrobat Reader.
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