where can i get a trade directory for early 1900's in Dublin?

Question

I am trying to trace details of the Curran mattress factory which was near Trinity College in Dublin and was around about 1900-1930 ish

Answer 1

I don't think you will find a lot of info on the web. I just did a quick check in my 1934 (original) Thom's Directory of Ireland and see a 'Thos. Curran, mattress maker, 1a Whitefriars place' listed in the 'Nobility, gentry, Merchants and Traders' section (p. 1775). This may be his home address- I would have to do more hunting to find out about his business. That street is no really near TCD, by the way - about 2 k away. No Curran is listed under the mattress makers section, but he might not have been still trading in 1934.

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Happy hunting,

Peter

Answer 2

I suggest this reverse phone lookup service: http://reversephone.toptips.org

It's a cheap service that works great!
It could be used for a much deeper search. You can use it to get hold of different varieties of background reports, and in addition cell numbers, addresses and names..
you can get unlimited reports... I ran with this because I required to verify more numbers. You can get the name, other phone number, address history, relatives, and much more about anyone!
The completly free reverse phone lookup generally doesn't provide anything interesting. To get interesting information, money will must be paid. The free searches don't provide considerably more than what may be found through the phone directory.
The reverse phone detective search tool does work, but you should use just the service that I posted above. The last thing you want to do, is pay for a service and find the numbers you want to lookup are not available in their directory.
The service that I reccomend doesn't have any kind of problem , you won't get any bad surprise!

Answer 3

The answer is just in front of you in the form of your PC and the internet.........type into a search engine things such as................
Trade Directories
Curren Mattress Factory
Dublin trades
Dublin Manufactorers..............
also anything else that you can think of. Another way is to try the library, or a local history society of Dublin. hope this is helpfull to you.

Answer 4

I honestly think I saw one in my Grandparents house the other day, my Grandad seemed to collect a lot of that kind of stuff - he has loads of old books... and plenty of the stranger ones you wouldn't expect people to have such as what your looking for.

I'm not sure how early it is. I'll look it up if I can remember. Is there a way of contact? Update your question, I'm reluctant to post my email address to be honest.

Answer 5

You could try CRO.ie, its the companies registration office, it might be a start.

maybe you should also contct the Dublin civic trust.
also the Dublin City Archives

Answer 6

Try this website as a starting point...

http://www.ihgs.ac.uk/library/trade_directories.pdf

Answer 7

try google