East Yorkshire local and family history

I am writing this on the morning of 11th November, Remembrance Day and thought it would be right to include here a memorial to some of the m...

Yet again it has been cold, wet and grey. There has been flooding in West Yorkshire and a local gardener I talked to said all his vegetables...

Well, I did go to Eastrington show yesterday but as the field was so wet the horse and cattle classes had been cancelled. It was not actuall...

Members of the Goole Civic Society have recently been compiling a list of 'local heritage assets' - buildings which are an important...

I recently saw in the Goole Times a picture of a Goole Old Boys rugby team but unfortunately no names were given. I immediately recognised...

I was contacted by a friend who had read my previous post about the Smithson family of Goole. She was particularly interested in the fact th...

I was recently contacted by a descendant of John B Smithson of Goole and his wife Edith Mary [nee Binnington].  The couple lived at first in...

In the WEA local history class I run in Goole - new members always welcome - we discuss all manner of subjects Goole related. This morning t...

I am always amazed at the connections which the internet enables us to make in matters of local history.  I recently received an email ...

Here is a fascinating piece of Goole's history which was written when Mrs Hannah Calvert died in 1934.  Mrs Calvert lived in Goole at a ...

Here is a further selection of well-known people from Goole's past. T Temple Mr Jolley Mr  James Branford The death occurr...

Here are some more old photos of Goole people who made news in the town. Do add any comments about them. Thomas Snowden, grocer and cou...

I have in my collection of old photos many of Goole people who have in the past served as local councillors, town officials, ministers etc....

Here is another Goole golden wedding. Albert Frederick Taylor married Emma Senior on August 4th 1909 at Goole. The Goole Times newspaper re...

Another in the wedding series - this time a diamond wedding. Robert John Harland married  Elizabeth Broadbent on October 8th 1889 at Old G...

Here is an account of two golden weddings of Old Goole couples to add to the series of wedding reports which appeared in the Goole Times. ...