East Yorkshire local and family history

A good number of years ago now I was a pupil at Goole Grammar School. The headmaster was Mr J L Latimer although he retired whilst I was the...

This weekend has been very hot and sticky and then last night the weather broke with the crashing and banging of a thunderstorm during the n...

Following on from my previous post about Staddlethorpe station here is another piece of  Gilberdyke  history. In the same file as before I h...

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...

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 ...

We went to Eastrington Show yesterday and enjoyed meeting several old friends. It was a cool day but dry and not windy like last year. The...

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,...

While researching the village of Barmby on the Marsh I came across an interesting, if rather gruesome, piece of information. One of the vi...

I have been cutting the grass today but although we had quite a lot of rain on Sunday afternoon it is still very dry and the grasscutter sti...

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