In a message dated 13/05/2004 05:48:13 GMT Daylight Time, twohills@bigpond.com writes: Is it possible that someone has a directory for approx 1864? I am looking for FRANCIS (HENRY) RUTHERFORD, grocer, High Street, Gateshead. I have tried the Historical Directories site but can not find any thing there. . For the most comprehensive list of local Trades Directories I have ever seen, see the series of articles by Adam Bunting in the Journal of the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society some four or five years ago. Those articles, together with hundreds of other fascinating and useful ones, are all included on the CD of the first 100 issues of that Journal, available from the NDFHS, 2nd Floor, Bolbec Hall, Westgate Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 2SE. See their web-site _www.ndfhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ndfhs.org.uk) for details and prices. . Geoff Nicholson . 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research in depth by THE local expert, working for YOU.