East Yorkshire local and family history

 It has been a long hot summer and we have been busy moving lots of old local photos and newspaper files into their new home in my now resto...

Suddenly it is early August and the garden is beginning to look autumnal. I have just been cutting the grass in the part of the garden where...

Last week,  members of my WEA history groups and also members of the Holme on Spalding Moor history group, visited two local churches. We ...

In an earlier post I mentioned meeting the biographer of Percy Jeeves, professional cricketer whose name was used by P G Wodehouse for his f...

I have recently been finding out more about the Birks family who were millers in Goole throughout most of the nineteenth century. Thomas B...

Since my last blog post I have been on holiday and returned to a garden which looked more like a field.  The grass had grown amazingly and t...

Today has been Eastrington show - and apart from one light shower it did not rain.  The show has had several bad weather years and for a sma...

At last it is warm and sunny and the garden is growing. Today we ate our first few strawberries from the greenhouse and this week we have se...

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...