East Yorkshire local and family history

I would like to wish everyone who reads my blog a Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2014. It has been an eventful year and I am looking fo...

We live quite near the River Ouse and friends have often asked whether we get flooded. Well I can still say no but last Thursday evening I t...

It is  the first day of Advent and the sun is shining brightly. Molly and I have been for a long walk and tramped our way through drifts of ...

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...