East Yorkshire local and family history

Random jottings about East Yorkshire local history and the countryside

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Eastrington memories

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 It's autumn - we've had the woodburner lit; we're drowning!! in apples and giving everyone who visits a bag of them and leaves ...
Wednesday, 13 August 2025

The Cass family of Howden, Goole and USA

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 I was surprised to notice that it was May when I last wrote a blog post. That does not mean that I have not been looking at local history b...
Monday, 26 May 2025

Blacktoft jetty

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  Blacktoft -  jetties and inns .  After a query about a Blacktoft family who were piermasters I thought I would put together a summary of t...
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Wednesday, 7 May 2025

Laxton VE day

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 This week we are celebrating VE day - Victory in Europe. The day was 8th May 1945, 80 years ago and there are a dwindling number of those w...
Monday, 21 April 2025

Saltmarshe and Hook

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 It's Easter Saturday  and  I'm going out to lunch to celebrate a friend's birthday. Tomorrow we are having the traditional roas...
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Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Sandhall and the Scholfields

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 I seem to have missed February with my blog posts - well it is the shortest month!! As I sit here at the computer I can see a pair of blue ...
Tuesday, 7 January 2025

Gribthorpe and weather

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 A Happy New Year to everyone. I do not know where December went but now we are in January 2025 and  the weather is decidedly wintry. This w...
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Monday, 25 November 2024

Foxes, concerts and Goole Town football

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 Now, in the last days of November, we have had a short spell of snow and frozen windscreens and today it's mild and windy. Since my las...
Saturday, 12 October 2024

East Parade and Hook Hall

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 And suddenly it's autumn. It has been wet, the leaves on the fig tree are coming off and many of our apples -Yorkshire Cockpits have fa...
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