East Yorkshire local and family history

I'm writing this on New Year's Eve, so definitely the last post of the year. We all enjoyed Christmas - despite having seasonal cold...

There were many poignant moments on Sunday 11th November as we commemorated the Armistice which ended the First World War. In Howden there w...

I am writing this on 10th November, a day before the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War. There are many co...

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...