East Yorkshire local and family history

It is now February- but one of the coldest weekends of the winter so far. There is a cold wind and it is raining and dark. We have not seen ...

 It is a grey time of year but at least we were not flooded on Friday 13th. We received a flood warning from the Environment Agency and  wen...

Tomorrow my WEA history of Howden class restarts after the Christmas break and I am looking forward to seeing everyone again. We are beginni...

So it's 2017 and almost time to take down the tree.  We enjoyed our turkey and watched fireworks over the river on New Year's Eve. T...

I am writing this post on the day before Christmas Eve - i.e. Friday 23rd December. It is a quiet moment with mince pies in the tin,  turkey...

Last night I went to the Howden late night shopping event. It was a very pleasant occasion - it did not rain or snow and it was not cold. I ...

November has in many ways lived unto its reputation as a gloomy month. It has rained; the dykes are full and we have had frosts and fog. But...

I was recently contacted by an Australian descendant of Simon Hamer who lived in Goole in the early days of the town.
She knew something of...

In 1979 historian Dr David Neave wrote a book entitled Howden Explored.  In it he wrote about the town as it was with its many Georgian buil...

The village of Eastrington in East Yorkshire was where I was brought up and went to school. My mother's family, the Nurses, have lived ...