East Yorkshire local and family history

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...

This has been a busy weekend. On Saturday I went to the local history bookfair at Beverley which was held at the Treasure House. I had a sta...

Now that autumn is here with winds and rain it is time for the new term of WEA local history classes to begin. I teach three classes - one...

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 ...