East Yorkshire local and family history

 It is only a few days before Easter but it is still cold and wet and however much I want to get out into the garden it is impossible as eve...

It's a sunny breezy day - such a relief from the incessant rain - and although the snowdrops have  all finished the daffodils are lookin...

 We have had a week of snow - very little here - and ice and have now had yet another 'named' storm. How did we ever manage when we ...

Happy New Year to all who read my blog.   I wish it would stop raining as the land is waterlogged and our pond is as high as I have seen it ...

 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...