East Yorkshire local and family history

 After a busy few days including a lovely visit to Driffield show I am now trying to get ahead of myself and prepare a talk for Howden civic...

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...

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

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...

 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...

 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...