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Please can anyone offer advise on how to obtain an address members of my family were living at early 1940s. I guess it would be to find a census and if anyone knows to whom I should apply. Thank you for any help available

Census returns have a 100 yr closure

You can look on Electoral Rolls usually in local libraries but they are only searchable by address and not name. So could be a long search.
What about telephone directories? Ancestry have some up to about 1960

there werent any census done in the war years BUT even if they had been done you couldn't view the info because of the 100 year closure.
Electoral rolls would be the answer but as already said you need the address rather than the name which is the other way round to what you have,

were there any BMD,s in that time as a cert would give an address

Thanks all for looking at this for me

There were no electoral registers during war years either.
As Shirley says, you need a marriage or birth (or even possibly death) cert from around that time.
Jan

If you do not mind putting the names of the family on this thread someone may recognise the names and be able to help. People did not move around quite as much then and the first electoral registers taken after the war may help.