East Yorkshire local and family history

Today has been a lovely day as friends, many from my history classes joined with neighbours  to help us celebrate the opening of our small ...

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...

I am busy with several history projects at the moment. With my Goole WEA class we are looking at the early history of Hook as well as trying...

We have been thinking for some time that my Howdenshire History website needed an overhaul. One of the main problems was that it did not hav...

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...

Last night I was the speaker at the Laxton WI and had a very enjoyable time. The meeting was thrown open to any interested villagers and aro...

I have been looking at the history of Laxton [Yorkshire] in preparation for giving a talk to the local WI in February. On the internet it is...

I was pleased to see Fiona's comment about my previous blog entry describing how she remembered the SS Aire at Saltmarshe. I thought it ...

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...

I had an interesting visit this week from a descendant of Joseph Rank, the miller. The gentleman and his wife were tracing Joseph's York...

This week I had a visit from John and Sue from the US who were staying in Saltmarshe whilst tracing their family history. Sue's great ...

One of my particular interests is in families from this area of Yorkshire who emigrated to US and Canada in the nineteenth century. Now than...