East Yorkshire local and family history

Yesterday I joined students and tutors at The Lowther Hotel in Goole for a celebration get- together and tour of the famous murals. There we...

I have recently been looking at some fascinating pictures of the bridge at Newport showing it with several steam rollers parked on top of it...

I spent yesterday at the family history day at Goole Waterways Museum. Sadly we did not have many visitors. Some people, who had come for a ...

I have just been looking in my greenhouse where my seed potatoes are looking very wizened and sickly.  It just never seems to stop raining a...

I was contacted by a friend who had read my previous post about the Smithson family of Goole. She was particularly interested in the fact th...

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...