East Yorkshire local and family history

I recently received a message from a former Howden resident publicising a forthcoming exhibition at the British Library.  Opening on 18th Oc...

Autumn has arrived with a vengeance. Last night the wind howled, the house shook and the power went off. This morning the ground is carpeted...

The grass is growing and the tomatoes are ripening but I have not had time to spend much time in the garden recently. Instead I have been in...

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...