East Yorkshire local and family history

My friend Prudence Bebb, with whom I taught many years ago now, at Howden School, has recently published the latest in her acclaimed series ...

I have countless old pictures, many of them old press pictures but others lovely old pictures which people have given me over the years. The...

Now back from holiday and the temptation of the Hay on Wye bookshops I have plenty to do. The garden is becoming overgrown with all the rain...

This team picture was taken 1968 and I have some names  - do let me know if they are not quite right. It has been suggested that they ...

I hope that someone may be able to help me identify the people on these two photos of Goole Grammar School. They were taken in 1940 and alt...

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 are some more old photos of Goole people who made news in the town. Do add any comments about them. Thomas Snowden, grocer and cou...

I have in my collection of old photos many of Goole people who have in the past served as local councillors, town officials, ministers etc....