Kelly's Street Directory.

[prharris25]

Has anybody got a circa 1945 - 1955 Kellys Directory......and if so, could they be kind enough to look up Chatham Street residents to see if anybody by the name of Duffin (possibly E.Duffin) lived there about this time please ?
I know the whole range is in the Library, but I live in wildest Hampshire now and do not come up that often.
Thanks in anticipation,
Paul.

[smiff]

It'd be handy if they were available in 'electronic' format

Has anybody got a circa 1945 - 1955 Kellys Directory......and if so, could they be kind enough to look up Chatham Street residents to see if anybody by the name of Duffin (possibly E.Duffin) lived there about this time please ?
I know the whole range is in the Library, but I live in wildest Hampshire now and do not come up that often.
Thanks in anticipation,
Paul.

[piwacket]

This site goes someway towards it - but sadly not far enough for you p.r.harris

It is very useful though http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/index.asp

Just possible I suppose that Reading Libraries has them online - but I recollect Les saying he'd been in there - so I guess not.

[Les]

The reference library does have quite a good collection and if you can't get any other result on here I will pop into town and have a butchers for you. I'll make a note to me.

[Bam]

I have the directory for 1955/56 and there is no Duffin in Chatham St. and no E. Duffin listed in the Reading area.

[prharris25]

Thanks all. Probably need to look up an earlier Directory, say 1950.
E.Duffin would have been about 84 in 1951 so every year counts !
Paul.

[Les]

OK Paul, as promised I have been into the Ref. Library this afternoon, it was good to abandon the painting and get out.
The info that I managed to find is as follows.
1944 no Duffins.
1947 no Duffins.
1949 Duffin Mrs. was living at No 111, as she was in 1952
But in 1954 and 1956 the house was unoccupied.
I didn't bother looking any further.
It was interesting reading through the list because there were qquite a few names that I recognised.

I hope that this will be of some help to you.

[prharris25]

Thanks for taking the trouble to do this for me Les, very grateful.
Sounds if it could well have been a rented house doesn't it ?
All part of a very slow investigation into my late grandfathers side of the family. Mrs Duffin was, I think, his sister.
I can just remember being taken down there in the car to deliver some apples one year in the early fifties. Of course, absolutely no interest in anything other than my latest Dinky toy then !!

Paul.

[Les]

You are more than welcome. I would almost certainly think that it was rented Paul. Most of the terraced houses were. I have just had my interest in the family tree reawakened by a communication from a distant relly in Genes Re. That is a whole heap more time used up. My brick wall is my Great Grandfather Henry who is a bit of a mystery.