Link: North Northumberland in Scotland directories

[Billyblue]

The NLS has made available for free download / read online, hundreds of Scottish directories.

for the past year I have been cataloguing about 700 of these for our local FHS.
Last week I looked at my last batch which is for "Scotland general" and found these three which also include "that part of North Northumberland which is .... part of the Scottish mail delivery system" (or words to that effect)

these are all published by R Grant & Son and the links are:
1872: http://www.archive.org/details/countydirectoryo1872edin
1878: http://www.archive.org/details/countydirectoryo1878edin
1882-1885:  http://www.archive.org/details/countydirectoryo188285edi

Dawn M

[Michael Dixon]

 Dawn M,

 Thank you for that thoughtful bit of action.

  Although I am a south Northumbrian ( Blyth area) I once lived for a wee while
in Ford in north west Northumberland. The postal address for Ford then was....

 Front Street
 Ford
 Coldstream
 Scotland.

  And today many folk in north Northumberland have a " Scottish" postcode.
 e.g. Cornhill on Tweed = TD12.      I think the TD prefix is mainly for Galashiels area.

Michael