East Yorkshire local and family history

 Ninety four years ago today on a still winter's day, like today,  the airship R100 was launched from Howden. Strictly speaking it was N...

It is the second of December and it has snowed and is now foggy!! Not sure whether we are heading for a white Christmas. But I shall go outs...

Recently on facebook there was a discussion about the banking history of Howden. Some years ago I wrote an article about the banks which was...

Here we are in mid October and as yet we have not had to put the heating on - it cannot last but while it does it certainly saves on oil! I ...

 This weekend, 16th and 17th September, Howden civic society is having an exhibition in Gilberdyke Memorial Hall as part of the annual herit...

 The new term has begun and the weather is beautiful.  I belong to - and teach-  a history group in Skelton village hall. We met yesterday f...

 It's been a busy week but very enjoyable. On Tuesday the members and friends  of the local history groups I attend in Goole and Howden ...

 I began my post last month with a comment about welcome rain. Well,  now I think it has gone too far the other way. My friend has her birth...

 I am sitting here listening to the welcome rain. The garden was bone dry and everything was drooping. In particular the potatoes needed the...

 Yesterday I was glued to the television as I watched the Coronation ceremony. It was not so much the processions in the rain but the actual...