East Yorkshire local and family history

Last week I was in Eastrington church singing the words 'Ere the winter storms begin' [from the harvest hymn  "Come, Ye Thankfu...

After reading my post about the Bennett family of Goole Harvey Tripp, editor of The Norseman, the journal of the Boothferry Family and Local...

It is definitely now autumn. The leaves are turning and coming off in the wind. And it is conker time. Although we no longer string them on ...

It's Sunday morning and September but I think we are a long way from an Indian summer. I had hoped to be outside this afternoon picking ...

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...