East Yorkshire local and family history

Here we are in 2021 and I hope we can all look forward to a happy new year. What with more gloomy news on the pandemic and the shocking even...

It's the day after Boxing Day - ie Sunday - and it is bright and sunny. A contrast to last night when the wind howled and the rain beat ...

 It's a cold raw day and I have just come inside from picking up fallen twigs which, when dry, will be good firesticks to light the wood...

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...