New directories and 1861 Census available from ARCHIVE CD BOOKS Web : _http://www.archivecdbooks.org.uk_ (http://www.archivecdbooks.org.uk/) 1. Kelly's Directory of Cheshire 1923 A late and very comprehensive directory including street directories for Birkenhead and Chester 2. Kelly's Directory of Cheshire 1914 A very comprehensive directory of Cheshire, bursting full of information about the county, every place is described in depth 3. Kelly's Directory of Cheshire 1910 As with all late directories this is very comprehensive and has lots of information about each of the places, their facilities and demographics as well as lists of private residents and their trades. 4. Kelly's Directory of Cheshire 1906 Another late and comprehensive directory for Cheshire listing residents and their trades 5. Kelly's Directory of Cheshire 1896 A very comprehensive directory including, a street directory of Birkenhead and Chester 6. Slaters Directory of Cheshire 1888 An enormous directory containing a vast amount of useful information for Cheshire researchers. Amazingly it contains street by street, house by house listings (including the names and trades of residents) for the following areas, Altrincham, Chester, Dunkinfield, Hyde, Macclesfield, Sale, Stockport, Heaton Norris and District, Stalybridge and District. 1861 Cheshire census CD set. It is now almost ready and the full 12 CD county set will be released this Friday, November 5th. . They have re-introduced advance ordering on the shopping cart until the final release date so that people can take advantage of the lower price until Friday, when the final cost will rise. More details on the web page at. _http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/chs-census.html_ (http://www.rod-neep.co.uk/acatalog/chs-census.html) Caryl List admin Birkenhead-L