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Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 2,092 Send Message	Kathlyn	Report	10 Jun 2009 17:31
	Thanks Helen, I will give that a go. Kathlyn
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 786 Send Message	Helen in Bucks	Report	10 Jun 2009 17:27
	this site has historical directories, you may find what you are looking for http://www.historicaldirectories.org/hd/ alternatively you might be able to access a selection of 19th C newspapers (digitized) and the Times online archive via your local libraries web site from home, I can access via Bucks CC Libraries site, just need my library card number, one of them might hold an advertisement for the shop Helen
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 2,092 Send Message	Kathlyn	Report	10 Jun 2009 17:24
	I am doing some research for an elderly friend and I have pre warned him that handed down family stories are sometimes rubbished. He said that his grandfather made furniture and had a shop/store selling furniture and antiques in the Hackney/Poplar/surrounding area in the late 1800s right up to the middle of the 1900s. Is there any site that would tell me if such a shop existed in this area?