Long before census details and parish records were at your computer fingertips, those of us researching our family trees had to set off to local and distant libraries, record offices and churches where the original hand-written record books of the parish’s births, marriages and deaths were sometimes held. You could get the bare bones from [...]

The August magazine has many stories to tell as Down Your Way readers reminisce of ‘those hazy, lazy, crazy, days of summer’ and wish that ‘summers would always be here’. Every month I bring readers articles ‘to life’ with the inclusion of nostalgic images, sometimes provided by readers themselves or by the many contacts I [...]

It is always an exciting moment for me when I receive delivery of the latest issue of Down Your Way ‘hot off the press’ and the July issue was no exception. This edition has been themed ‘The Freedom of the Countryside’ to coincide with another great event in the Yorkshire calendar -The Great Yorkshire Show. [...]

Yes. You. You over there with the wardrobe of darted flares, and copies of Top of the Pops annuals sitting next to your box of Top Trumps cards and Twister instructions. We don’t usually come back much further than the 1960′s in our magazine, but we thought that since we’re on the web, and blogging, [...]

As a child I was always confused by the saying ‘Ne’er cast a clout till May be out’, did it mean the month of May or the May blossom of the hawthorn? Mother used to tell me one thing and my father another and even more confusing was his ‘if you ask one more time [...]