East Yorkshire local and family history

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I have recently been looking at some fascinating pictures of the bridge at Newport showing it with several steam rollers parked on top of it...

I have recently been asked whether I have any information about when Goole cricket club was formed. I have some pictures but not much about ...

I have been looking through some files and have come across  a song, written by Gilberdyke teacher Mrs Jean Sellers on the occasion of the c...

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,...