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 [...]

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. [...]

Here we go! The first of my blogs telling you what happens in the world of Down Your Way. As I am disabled, I work from my home in Leeds and although contributions are sent to me via a PO Box number I am always available by telephone (see contact page for details). As I [...]

Christine Porrelli asks us to help her trace her Yorkshire roots

Down Your Way has its own area, to discuss all things nostalgic and Yorkshire. You don’t have to wait for us to start a topic either, simply join up and start posting your own questions…

ANITA COOLING, of Boston Spa, sends this image which includes her grandmother, Arabella Marshall, aged about twelve around the years 1886/87…