East Yorkshire local and family history

This is a fairly brief piece in response to a facebook post. I prefer to write as blog posts as facebook posts tend to get submerged quite q...

Since my last post we have had Easter, some lovely sunshine and also snow. I put my tomato plants out into the greenhouse and think they are...

 It's a new month and we are still in lockdown - but there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel [ just hoping it's not a train...

After writing this blog I had a request to include another home guard picture of Skelton men I have. This is said to have been taken at Kilp...

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...