East Yorkshire local and family history

On Saturday I visited Ellerker church which is near Brough in East Yorkshire.   I have visited before with my WEA history classes in July 20...

Last Friday I went to The Lowther Hotel in Goole where the official opening took place of the Reuben Chappell Art Trail. http://www.goolec...

It is Tuesday morning and pouring with rain. But this gives me time to catch up with my blog. It has been a busy few days and we have been...

After I had posted Elmit Cook's obituary I was contacted by another friend, Pauline Stainton of Goole. It was in fact she who  had ...

On my website we have a section entitled Goole Worthies. These are men and women with a Goole connection about whom we have information. Mu...

The death occurred recently of Dennis Hanson of Eastrington. He had lived in the village of Eastrington for much of his life but his name wa...

It's now Tuesday morning and it is raining. But luckily last week we managed to avoid the rain and all our events went well. Almost 50 m...

I am busy at the moment tidying up the yard and garden in preparation for three events. The first two are visits to our museum by the Boothf...

It has been a difficult few weeks as my aunt,  Jean Sellers, nee Nurse, who was 89, has been ill and then sadly died. The funeral,  this wee...

Last Thursday,  June 18th, saw the commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Locally a small ceremony in the Howden ...