References

Primary sources:

The primary sources of information about the traders of King’s Lynn’s High Street and their families that have been used are as follows:

Archived original copies of The Lynn News and Lynn Advertiser (note the titles of the newspapers changed over time and eventually merged) (held by the newspaper proprietors).

Microfilm and digitised copies of the Lynn News and Lynn Advertiser at the King’s Lynn Library.

Regional, county and local trade directories (King’s Lynn Library, King’s Lynn Forums and private collections):

1822/3 Pigot – 1830 Pigot – 1836 White – 1839 Pigot – 1845 White1846 Kelly’s Nine Counties – 1850 Slater – 1854 White – 1856 Craven – 1858 Kelly – 1863 Harrod – 1864 White – 1865 Kelly’s Post Office – 1868 Harrod – 1869 Kelly – 1872 Harrod – 1875 Kelly – 1877 Harrod – 1879 Kelly’s Post Office – 1883 Kelly – 1883 White – 1888 Kelly – 1890 White – 1892 Kelly – 1893 Deacon – 1896 Kelly – 1900 Kelly  – 1901 Turner – 1904 Kelly – 1908 Kelly – 1912 Kelly – 1916 Kelly – 1922 Kelly – 1925 Kelly – 1928/9 Kelly – 1930/1 Kelly – 1932/3 Kelly – 1933 Kelly – 1934/5 Kelly – 1936 Kelly – 1937 Kelly – 1938/9 Kelly – 1951 Kelly – 1954 Kelly – 1957 Kelly – 1960 Kelly – 1966 Kelly – 1970/1 Yates – 1972 Kelly – 1973 Kelly – 1974 Kelly.

Census Records: 1841 – 1851 – 1861 – 1871 – 1881 – 1891 – 1901 – 1911

Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths (BMDs).

Parish records of baptisms, marriages and burials and certificates of BMDs.

Probate records.

Wills.

Online resources used include:

britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk

freebmd.org.uk

ancestry.co.uk

findmypast.co.uk

thegazette.co.uk

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Booth, Bob. King’s Lynn in the 1930s. Tricky Sam Publishing. 2006.

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Booth, Bob. Memories of Lynn (1950 – 1975). Tricky Sam Publishing. 2009.

Braithwaite, David. Savage of King’s Lynn. Inventor of machines & merry-go-rounds. Patrick Stephens Ltd. 1975.

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Clegg, Barbara. The man who made Littlewoods. The story of John Moores. Hodder and Stoughton 1993.

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