East Yorkshire local and family history

I am busy with several history projects at the moment. With my Goole WEA class we are looking at the early history of Hook as well as trying...

Readers of the Goole Times may have noticed that I have begun contributing to the newspaper's very interesting 'Back in Time' p...

After writing about Yorkshire dialect I had a good response from local people who are also interested in the words we use. Pauline Stainto...

I have always enjoyed listening to those people I know who still use out local dialect quite naturally. And having been brought up in the ar...

It seems appropriate as we approach Christmas to have a look back at how the season was celebrated locally in times past. We are at present ...

I am hoping to clear up a minor mystery here. I have recently read  two books which include pictures of Goole where the coal hoists are desc...

Some years ago whilst reading the old files of the Goole Times for 1937 I came across some articles entitled 'Marshland of 70 years ago...

We spent yesterday in the Shire Hall at Howden , meeting people and selling copies of my new book about the history of Howden ('Howden, ...

I am writing this on the morning of 11th November, Remembrance Day and thought it would be right to include here a memorial to some of the m...

It is a lovely sunny November weekend and I have been out with Molly having a bonfire of hedge clippings and old cardboard boxes. Molly has ...