East Yorkshire local and family history

I would like to wish everyone who reads my blog a Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2014. It has been an eventful year and I am looking fo...

It is  the first day of Advent and the sun is shining brightly. Molly and I have been for a long walk and tramped our way through drifts of ...

I have just come in from walking Molly. The leaves are beautiful this year and as yet it is still mild enough to walk in just a sweatshirt. ...

Suddenly it is early August and the garden is beginning to look autumnal. I have just been cutting the grass in the part of the garden where...

Since my last blog post I have been on holiday and returned to a garden which looked more like a field.  The grass had grown amazingly and t...

It is a lovely sunny November weekend and I have been out with Molly having a bonfire of hedge clippings and old cardboard boxes. Molly has ...

This has been a busy week for family history with visits to both the archives at Beverley and the Borthwick Institute at York. Whilst at B...

Members and friends of my WEA local history classes visited Wressle this week. We met at the brick church, built in 1799  to replace the cha...

Although we are not quite at the end of February today felt like spring was on the way. I was able to walk Molly without wearing a woolly ha...

We are in the news at the moment with features on BBC Countryfile and the opening of David Hockney's new exhibition at the Royal Academy...

It is the end of another year and as far as the weather is concerned the contrast with last year could not be greater. It is very mild and I...

Today is Christmas Eve, grey, cold and damp but nothing like the Arctic conditions of last year. We have now passed the shortest day (21st D...

I was pleased to receive this week a letter from Josephine who has, with the help of some people who used to work there, identified nearly a...

Today has been a typical dull, drizzly November day. I had hoped to take some pictures in Saltmarshe Park but the light was too poor. I ha...

This has been a busy week. My book about Goole is now in proof and should be, when I have made the corrections,  printed by the end of Octob...

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...

This has been a busy weekend. On Saturday I went to the local history bookfair at Beverley which was held at the Treasure House. I had a sta...