East Yorkshire local and family history

I was recently contacted by a descendant of John B Smithson of Goole and his wife Edith Mary [nee Binnington].  The couple lived at first in...

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...

This weekend I visited a postcard fair at York racecourse. There must have been thousands of old postcards to look through and it was someti...

I have been reading my copy of  the Goole Grammar school booklet which was produced in 1959 to celebrate the fifty years of the school's...

It has been a few days since I wrote anything here on my blog. Blame the lovely weather as I have been out in the garden tidying up and cle...

My friend Ken Deacon of Howden has just published a novel based on the crash of the R38 airship in 1921.  The airship, which was crewed by...

Yesterday I had a stall at the Goole hobbies exhibition. It was very busy and I met lots of people interested in local history. I had a scre...

Although we are not quite at the end of February today felt like spring was on the way. I was able to walk Molly without wearing a woolly ha...

Last night I was the speaker at the Laxton WI and had a very enjoyable time. The meeting was thrown open to any interested villagers and aro...

I have recently been asked whether I have any information about when Goole cricket club was formed. I have some pictures but not much about ...