East Yorkshire local and family history

In my last post I mentioned that I had been church visiting and I continued the theme on Tuesday by visiting Bubwith church with my WEA grou...

As I write it still has not rained and the garden is very dry. We have been watering our baskets and the vegetables but the potatoes are ver...

I was delighted to read in this weekend's Yorkshire Post an article by local writer Lucy Oates about the proposed archaeological dig beh...

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...