East Yorkshire local and family history

On Thursday night the wind sounded so strong- I think it was Storm Gertrude!- that rather than be lulled to sleep by it we were worried abou...

Now we are in 2016 and still the weather is mild - I have daffodils from my garden on the kitchen table. Also on the kitchen table were two ...

It is the strange limbo period between Christmas and New Year when no one quite knows what to do. Of course we are quite near York where the...

This is the time of year when everyone is preparing for Christmas and there never seems to be enough time to do everything. Last night I w...

I am delighted that our friend John Leake, who has been working for a long time on his book about the village of Foggathorpe near Howden and...

It has been a very varied week- a bit like the weather which too has ranged from sun, storms and frost. I was sad to see earlier in the week...

Much earlier in the year I wrote about our foray into beekeeping.  Over the summer our bees have been away to a site where they had access t...

I have had several lovely comments on my last post about our new chickens and so will try to keep chicken news up to date. They continue to ...

Last Sunday we acquired 12 new chickens. Since the fox took the last of our chickens earlier this summer  we have had none and I was wary ab...

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...