East Yorkshire local and family history

Random jottings about East Yorkshire local history and the countryside

Monday, 17 June 2024

Thomas Bristow - from Blacktoft via Reedness to Australia

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The weather is slowly improving and I have managed to get the grass cut and planted some courgettes outside. I am also trying to catalogue m...
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Thursday, 30 May 2024

D Day in the Goole and Howden area

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On  Thursday June 6th 2024 there will be several events both nationally and locally to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the D Day landing...
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Monday, 20 May 2024

Goole's part in building Mulberry Harbour 1944

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Late in 1943 workers began arriving in Goole to work on a project in numbers one and two dry docks.  Many were simply told to report for wor...
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Monday, 22 April 2024

Ringstonhurst, North Howden

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 It's now three weeks after Easter - and it is still cold and wet. Local farmers cannot get on to the land and are desperate for some wa...
Monday, 25 March 2024

Spaldington

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 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...
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Friday, 15 March 2024

Howden Hall East Yorkshire

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It's a sunny breezy day - such a relief from the incessant rain - and although the snowdrops have  all finished the daffodils are lookin...
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Monday, 22 January 2024

Family connections - Jenkinson and Nagley

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 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 ...
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Tuesday, 2 January 2024

January 2024

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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 ...
Saturday, 16 December 2023

An eye witness account of the launch of the R100

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 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...
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