East Yorkshire local and family history

This has been a busy week for family history with visits to both the archives at Beverley and the Borthwick Institute at York. Whilst at B...

I am researching details for a book I am writing about Howden. It is some years since I wrote a history of Howden with Ken Powls. The book w...

Yesterday I visited the newly re-opened Goole library. I was particularly interested to see how the move of the local studies library downst...

Today has been a day of churchyard visits. I had been asked to take pictures of gravestones at both Snaith and Howden and travelled from one...

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...