East Yorkshire local and family history

Last Friday I went on a trip on the Sobriety with 12 members of my Goole WEA class from the Waterways museum at Goole. Sobriety is a Humbe...

I was pleased to receive this week a letter from Josephine who has, with the help of some people who used to work there, identified nearly 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,...

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...