This is the link page to Directories UK. Directories include early commercial and trade directories (the forerunners of telephone directories) and telephone directories.

Trade Directories

"Directories were first published for cities and large towns around 1800, and a few decades later for small towns or rural areas. However, there were earlier directories for London. A directory of London merchants was published in 1677 and London directories were published annually from 1734." Ancestral Trails, M. Herber.

• Essex Directories
• Gloucestershire Directories
• Hertfordshire Directories
• Kent Directories
• Lancashire Directories
• London & Middlesex Directories
• Norfolk Directories
• Suffolk Directories
  
• United Kingdom Directories
• Worcestershire Directories
• Yorkshire Directories

Phone Directories

British phone books were published from 1880, the year after the public telephone service was introduced to the UK. Selected BT phone book archives have been made available online by Ancestry.co.uk. Sterry entries are listed below.

1902-03

Western Section
Gloucester and Barnwood
192(West)
221 STERRY & Morris, Grocers, Provn Merchants, 18 Southgate St

Southern Section
Lowestoft
25(Sth)
46 STERRY J. S. & Co., Ld., Shipowners & Merchts, Commercial rd
46b STERRY J. S. & Co., Ld., Shipowners & Merchts, London rd
46c STERRY J. S. & Co., Ld., Shipowners & Merchts, Belvedere rd

Southern Section
Yarmouth
21 (Sth)
0161 STERRY E.V., Coal Importer, Durhm whf S'htown