East Yorkshire local and family history

At long last the weather is improving and I have been able to cut the grass. I have a very old ride on mower and it is a challenge to steer ...

This last month seems to have flown by and now we are in October. The pond is still dry and although the grass had grown in some parts of th...

I have recently been finding out more about the Birks family who were millers in Goole throughout most of the nineteenth century. Thomas B...

Readers of the Goole Times may have noticed that I have begun contributing to the newspaper's very interesting 'Back in Time' p...

It seems appropriate as we approach Christmas to have a look back at how the season was celebrated locally in times past. We are at present ...

I am hoping to clear up a minor mystery here. I have recently read  two books which include pictures of Goole where the coal hoists are desc...

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...

It seems some time since I wrote a post and quite a lot seems to have been going on. On Sunday we spent some time in The Lowther hotel in ...

Yesterday I visited the newly re-opened Goole library. I was particularly interested to see how the move of the local studies library downst...

I write a regular article in the monthly magazine Howden Matters . This usually consists of an old picture and a long caption describing the...

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...

Yesterday I joined students and tutors at The Lowther Hotel in Goole for a celebration get- together and tour of the famous murals. There we...

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...

Last Friday I went on a trip on the Sobriety with 12 members of my Goole WEA class from the Waterways museum at Goole. Sobriety is a Humbe...

I have been reading my copy of  the Goole Grammar school booklet which was produced in 1959 to celebrate the fifty years of the school's...

Yesterday I had a stall at the Goole hobbies exhibition. It was very busy and I met lots of people interested in local history. I had a scre...