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Business & Commerce Records information for Great Yarmouth and places above it in the hierarchy

Great Yarmouth

Fewster, Mary Innes

The Yarmouth herring industry 1880-1960. (Vol.1: Text; Vol.2: Photographs).
[Norwich, University of East Anglia Thesis, 1985]

Lewis, Charles

Pierhead paintings: ship portraits from East Anglia.
[Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service, c1982]

Murphy, John Desmond

The town and trade of Great Yarmouth, 1740-1850.
[Norwich, University of East Anglia Thesis, 1979]

England

• Registration of Companies and Businesses, there are three Research Guides from The National Archives with useful background information.
• Companies House has a database of companies and directors

UK and Ireland

• TNA provide:
  • A very useful  Research Guide: Companies and business
  • Their National Register of Archives (NRA) ("Discovery") is particularly useful for finding the location of the archived records of named organisations
• The Association of Business Historians creates and disseminates knowledge about business history.
• TNA hold some railway company records. (Ancestry provides subscription access to the TNA's railway employment records 1833-1958, from a number of historic railway companies.)
• Some employers' and trade association archives are held by Warwick University's Modern Record Centre.
• Trade directories can provide some information (including advertisements) about businesses, large and small, through the years.
• Railway Work, Life and Death - records of railway worker accidents in Britain between 1911 and 1915 - "a joint initiative between the University of Portsmouth and the National Railway Museum (NRM)".
• The John Lewis Memory Store: ". . . a living history of John Lewis & Partners. Through the site, people share their memories, photos, maps and information about John Lewis & Partners, past and present."
• United Kingdom Cemetery Records, from Interment.net.