East Yorkshire local and family history

I think I have been overtaken by events over the last month and so this post is probably overdue. The garden has 'escaped' as every ...

Last Saturday  I was at Eastrington show, sitting behind our stall, displaying and selling old photos and honey. It was a good day, hot outs...

As I write the sun has come out after several days of heavy rain. It is good for the garden but the ground is strewn with leaves and twigs a...

Today we have been putting honey in jars after extracting it yesterday. A very sticky business but the  honey tastes delicious. It is a spri...

I recently saw a postcard of a ship on its side [ probably not the correct technical term!] in what was described as Goole shipyard. The dat...

At last it has rained and the vegetables are beginning to grow in the raised beds. I am looking forward to the first boiling of our new pota...

I was doing some research on Balkholme recently, looking at the history of the flax mill there. I was interested to come across the story of...

Looking out of the window it is a lovely bright, sunny day but once outside it is obvious that there is a cold northerly wind - one of those...

Friday sees the opening of the new Howden Heritage Centre in what was the old HSBC bank in Howden Market Place. Under the enthusiastic leade...

Almost a month has passed since I last wrote here and a lot has happened in between. The snowdrops are now dying off and being replaced by d...