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This website contains a variety of free resources relating to the history of East Yorkshire people and places, with a particular focus on the areas around Howden and Goole. and the surrounding villages.

I have gathered the historical material on this website over many years and it is available freely. But if you are wanting to share it please ask and if possible credit this website.

Also I have several hundred old pictures of the area. I have gathered them too over many years – some inherited as actual very old photos, many as postcards which I have been given or bought and others scanned from friends or past students who have given me permission to copy them. Over the years I have provided digital images for various publications as well as for family historians. I do make a charge for them but do not be afraid to ask me if I have a picture about a place or person you are interested in.

Although now retired I worked for many years as a genealogist and have researched several Yorkshire families. I still take on short commissions where the family has a connection with the local area.

I have published local history books about Gilberdyke, Saltmarshe, Eastrington, Howden and Goole. Some are out of print but I have copies of my books on Eastrington Howden and Saltmarshe available.

Also have a look at my blog – I have been writing it for over ten years and it covers a wide variety of local and family history topics. It tells you a little more about me and life in the East Yorkshire countryside

The climbing frame and children in 1960 Front row, from left: Peter Wraith, Ian Young, Carol Hopkinson, Jimmy Wraith, Linda Flint, Lynn Johnson, Anne Chapman, Colin Wraith, Herbert Lowther, Charlie Chapman, Stephen Clark, Pamela Atkinson, Susan Naylor. Second row, from left: Stephen Cammidge, Stuart Young, Andrew White, Tony Ingram, Robin Watson, John Benson, Maureen Wraith, Elaine Anson, Doris Crowcroft, unknown [turning round], May Lowther, Frankie Johnson, Eddie Crowcroft, Susan Watson, John Railton, Albert Clark, Garry Westoby, Stephen Dent, Angela Wiles [with pinafore] Third row, from left: Lynn Harrison, Judith Lilley, Sandra Jackson [just in front of Judith], Marion Chapman, unknown girl, Janet Hopkinson, Linda Anson, Brian Malcolmson, David Lilley, Peter Wilburn, Norma Robinson, Vivienne Howden [with hair slide], Pauline Wraith, Elizabeth Anson, Bernice Wraith [behind Elizabeth and in front of 'Laddy' Lowther] Fourth [back] row, from left: Valerie Johnson, Shirley Clark, Graham Harrison, Jackie Railton, Carmella Grande [with pigtails], Doreen Robinson, behind her Kathleen Malcolmson, Keith Holmes [behind Kathleen], Phyllis Brown [standing on bars], John Kirk, Mary Clark [hanging left from bar], Gladstone Lowther [hanging, middle], Jean Robinson, Keith Calvert, Freddie Harrison, Kathleen Gaskin.

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