East Yorkshire local and family history

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...

Recently published is a fascinating booklet on the history of Holy Trinity church, East Cowick. Written by local historian Ken Sayner [for t...

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...

Yesterday was the last session of my Goole history classes before Xmas. We shall resume on Thursday 12th January 2012. It is a very friendly...

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 writing a book at the moment about Goole, using lots of old pictures, dating from the 1930s and 40s. One of the pictures is of the Lep ...

In the WEA local history class I run in Goole - new members always welcome - we discuss all manner of subjects Goole related. This morning t...

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

This will, I hope, become one of a series sharing with a wider audience the interesting golden and diamond wedding reports which have  a...