East Yorkshire local and family history

On Monday evening I went to a meeting about the proposed archaeological dig on the land behind the present Heritage Centre, formerly the HSB...

It is still local history weather by which I mean that it is not gardening weather. Every time I think spring is on the way it rains. The da...

Today is Good Friday - and it's cold. Particularly cold here as we have very little oil and when I ordered more I was told that as the E...

I expected to be writing today about the Goole Hobbies exhibition but last week we saw out the end of February with a blast of Siberian weat...

It's the second of February - a month traditionally known as February fill-dyke. It is wet outside, our pond is full and the sky is glow...

My last blog post was a slideshow of Bridgegate going towards Cornmarket Hill. This one goes in the opposite direction, along Bridgegat...

I have recently upgraded my computer and have been playing with an application which allows me to create and save slideshows. Here i...

Christmas Day has been and gone and today the turkey was made into a pie. It has been snowing in the south of the country but here we have n...

It is Christmas Eve and I have just tidied up the kitchen, fed the chickens with some old crusts and am looking forward to a busy day of coo...

As I sit here there is still a bit of snow on the garden. Last winter we barely saw a flake so it was a great surprise on Thursday evening w...