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 ...

I am hoping to clear up a minor mystery here. I have recently read  two books which include pictures of Goole where the coal hoists are desc...

I am writing this on the morning of 11th November, Remembrance Day and thought it would be right to include here a memorial to some of the m...

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 ...

Yesterday I had a stall at the Goole hobbies exhibition. It was very busy and I met lots of people interested in local history. I had a scre...

My Goole students have recently been studying the shipbuilders of the town. We started by looking at the early builders such as John Gutteri...

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 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 ...

Here is a further selection of well-known people from Goole's past. T Temple Mr Jolley Mr  James Branford The death occurr...

Here is another Goole golden wedding. Albert Frederick Taylor married Emma Senior on August 4th 1909 at Goole. The Goole Times newspaper re...