East Yorkshire local and family history

It is sometime since I wrote a post and so there are several local matters I would like to mention. The first is the death, at the age of ...

It has been a lovely sunny day for the May bank holiday and we went to Helmsley for the afternoon. The rest of the world was there too and i...

I have a friend who, like me, collects old pictures and postcards of the local area. She is also very skilled at adding colour to old photog...

This week I went to the Carnegie Centre in West Park in Hull to give a talk to the East Yorkshire Family History Society. There was a good a...

It is Good Friday, the day when gardeners traditionally plant their potatoes. I have been outside today, wrapped up in woolly hat, gloves an...

I have been busy for the last two weeks writing a booklet about the Howden Council school. The school is celebrating its centenary with an e...

On Saturday 2nd March the Goole Rotary club are holding their annual hobbies exhibition in the Leisure Centre. It is always very popular and...

As regular readers of the blog will know I contribute a piece every month to a local magazine called Howden Matters. Some two months ago t...

I have been looking this week at Quaker history and specifically at some of our local families who emigrated in the late seventeenth centu...

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...