East Yorkshire local and family history

I have been spending some of my time recently sorting out the archive of old Goole Times pictures which I possess, separating them into Gool...

Buying an icecream in Richard Cooper Street from Anthony White It's a cold day and there's gloomy news on the Covid virus front so i...

In the early hours of Wednesday 9th October 1929 the townsfolk of Howden were woken by shouts and noise as the tower of the Church went up i...

 As we wait for news about whether we are going to spend more time in lockdown I am turning to history and harvesting as a relaxing distract...

 It has been very stormy the last few days and we have had lots of small branches and leaves strewn around the garden. This got me thinking ...

 Cannot make sense of the weather this summer. One minute it's unbearably hot and then next minute it’s damp and cold. Since our visitor...

Yet again it is raining and I have just put a bucket underneath an overflowing gutter. The garden is growing crops of chickweed as well as r...

At last it has rained and everything in the garden has soaked it up and looks much happier - including the weeds of course. Walking Molly I ...

The sky is blue, the cuckoo has been calling and we are still confined largely to our homes. But I have a big garden and there is plenty t...

I was listening to the radio this morning and the speaker mentioned that tomorrow is Rogation Sunday. This is the day when the Church  off...