Dave Have you tried looking at the Historical Directories available free at http://specialcollections.le.ac.uk/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16445coll4. If you select Browse by Location, and use Northumberland as the search criterion, you get a list of directories to search. Ruth -----Original Message----- From: northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:northumbria-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Yahoo! via Sent: 10 January 2015 11:57 To: northumbria@rootsweb.com Subject: [NMB] 56 Bedford Street, North Shields Hi All I hope that someone from North Shields can remember if 56 Bedford Street was ever a Confectioners or something similar. William Brownlee married Elizabeth Cowell in 1897. He was described at that time as a Seaman. However by 1911 he was a Confectioner and living at 106 HIgh Street, Wallsend. In 1931 Elizabeth died in 65 Bedford Street, I know that end of Bedford Street has a lot of shops, with flats above them.