East Yorkshire local and family history

I have been looking this week at Quaker history and specifically at some of our local families who emigrated in the late seventeenth centu...

Some years ago whilst reading the old files of the Goole Times for 1937 I came across some articles entitled 'Marshland of 70 years ago...

Just a reminder that there is a family history day in Goole library on Saturday 3rd November from 10am to 4pm. I shall be there, as will the...

It has been a busy week for local history. On Wednesday I attended the Howden Civic Society awards evening. The room was full as Mike Smith ...

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...

I spent yesterday at the family history day at Goole Waterways Museum. Sadly we did not have many visitors. Some people, who had come for a ...

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...

Christmas is over, the duck has been eaten, presents exchanged and we have had a traditional long Boxing Day walk. I have a new computer a...

One of the projects which the Howden WEA local history group which I teach has worked on is how Howden was affected by the Second World War....

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 ...

Soon after writing about the mills at Barmby I had a message from Stuart whose ancestors were in fact the millers there at one time. His 3x ...

I am finding the history of Barmby on the Marsh fascinating at the moment. Whilst I have quite a lot of information on the village already,...

While researching the village of Barmby on the Marsh I came across an interesting, if rather gruesome, piece of information. One of the vi...

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 ...