East Yorkshire local and family history

On Tuesday members of my WEA local history group went on their travels again. This time we went further afield and visited Foulbridge near ...

I write a regular article in the monthly magazine Howden Matters . This usually consists of an old picture and a long caption describing the...

Members and friends of my WEA local history classes visited Wressle this week. We met at the brick church, built in 1799  to replace the cha...

On Friday I went in the evening to Aughton church. Every year there is a service there  to remember Robert Aske, the leader of the Pilgrimag...

Yet again it has been cold, wet and grey. There has been flooding in West Yorkshire and a local gardener I talked to said all his vegetables...

Well, I did go to Eastrington show yesterday but as the field was so wet the horse and cattle classes had been cancelled. It was not actuall...

I hope to attend Eastrington show tomorrow as I have done now for more years than I care to remember. Although these days I have no connecti...

We have been thinking for some time that my Howdenshire History website needed an overhaul. One of the main problems was that it did not hav...

I have just listened to news of flooding in Wales and have listened to yet another weather forecast of below average temperatures and heavy ...

Members of the Goole Civic Society have recently been compiling a list of 'local heritage assets' - buildings which are an important...