Category: Directories

The call office in Colnbrook has been installed and the use of the telephone has started. Colnbrook Phones 1920 Daws and Son, Grocers, Colnbrook Post Office … Colnbrook 01 Commercial Glass Works Ltd, Poyle Mills … Colnbrook 02 Stanwell Chemical Works Ltd, Stanwell Moor … Colnbrook 03 Cole A. E., Cottesbrook … Colnbrook 04 Lanz…

This has been extracted from the Post Office Telephone books. Yiewsley Call Office – 1907 Ashby Bros, Growers etc. Home Farm, Harmondsworth  …. Yiewsley 2 Odell & Co. Ltd, Contractors, Boat Builders, Horton Bridge ….  Yiewsley 6 Cogswell and Harrison, Ltd, Shooting School, Colnbrook .    Yiewsley 31 In 1912 there is no exchange or…

With the need to supply services to the traveller. Shops played an important role. Advertising in directories is one way of being noticed. Before directories being known by the landlords of the coaching inns was just as important as the traveller is liable to seek his advice to meet a need. Surname Forename(s) Occupation Address…

These people advertised their presence in the directories to show their status to the public at large. Most, if not all are in the middling classed who were concerned about status. Although Colnbrook Town was not a genteel locality. In the Edwardian period the new larger houses were built Poyle after Colnbrook Railway Station opened.…

Here are the farmers and growers from the area. Before inclosure the farms consisted of strips in the open fields. Colnbrook, being in two parishes had a complicated situation where farms in Langley Marish included land in Foxborough, Langley Marish while Farms in Horton used the open fields to the south of the town. In…

There have been many attempts to run private schools in Colnbrook. Here is a directory showing some. Later the Church of England National Schools took over and existed beside the Baptist British School. The first mention of a school in Colnbrook was a donation be King Edward II towards the maintenance of the school. Surname…

Colnbrook existed to provide for travellers. The directories appear after the Great Western Railway started and the stage coach era was over. Some blacksmiths and wheelwrights went out of business earlier when coaches improved and travelled to Salt Hill before stopping. Surname Forename(s) Occupation Address (Phone) Pigots 1839 Pigots National 1844 1852 Bucks 1854 Bucks…

Here are the Inns, Beer Houses and Brewers grouped by place and date – note there are two Golden Cross ale houses and many unnamed beer houses. Before the advent of Directories there were other inns and alehouses like The Angel, Swan and The Talbot.       Directory Pigots Pigots Musson & Craven Kellys…