East Yorkshire local and family history

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

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 ...

We spent yesterday in the Shire Hall at Howden , meeting people and selling copies of my new book about the history of Howden ('Howden, ...

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 ...

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...

While researching material for my book on Howden I often become distracted and spend much longer than necessary following up ideas. One su...

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...

I am researching details for a book I am writing about Howden. It is some years since I wrote a history of Howden with Ken Powls. The book w...

Today has been a day of churchyard visits. I had been asked to take pictures of gravestones at both Snaith and Howden and travelled from one...

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

It has been a few days since I wrote anything here on my blog. Blame the lovely weather as I have been out in the garden tidying up and cle...

My friend Ken Deacon of Howden has just published a novel based on the crash of the R38 airship in 1921.  The airship, which was crewed by...

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 this week at various aspects of the history of Howden church and in particular some of the interesting people associated...

I have been looking through my Howden notes and thought the following information may be of interest to researchers. Goole Library has som...

The  junior school in Hailgate was built as Howden Council school and opened in 1912. Next year will therefore be the school centenary and m...

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....

Now that autumn is here with winds and rain it is time for the new term of WEA local history classes to begin. I teach three classes - one...

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 ...