East Yorkshire local and family history

Back to the computer after the excitement of watching the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special last night. Even though I am not an avid fan I...

I have just come in from walking Molly. The leaves are beautiful this year and as yet it is still mild enough to walk in just a sweatshirt. ...

Time seems to fly by at the moment and it is well over a fortnight since I wrote anything. So here is a catch-up on local history matters. ...

I am now able to relax a little after what has been a very busy week. On Monday I gave a talk on how to trace your family history to the H...

This last month seems to have flown by and now we are in October. The pond is still dry and although the grass had grown in some parts of th...

 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...