This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen The Three Virgins Miss Betty Biker was born in 1841 at Dam Head on Pasture Road […]
Embsay with Eastby History – The Three Virgins
Embsay with Eastby History – Other Boundaries On Barden Moor
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen I had my attention drawn to a note found in the Day Book of Thomas Parker […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Boundary Stones on Eastby Moor
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen Identifying a boundary on open moorland using markers that will remain for hundreds of years is […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Christmas At The Mason’s Arms
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen Christmas At The Mason’s Arms, Eastby 1872 – 1874 For the past two years I have […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Eliza Manikin Heyworth
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. This history post is a sad, tragic tale, but Eliza Manikin Heyworth deserves to join our […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Embsay Post Office
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. The Embsay Post Office has changed its location no less than 6 times since 1900. The […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Dr. Catherine Arnott
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. Catherine Arnott: doctor, suffragette and ‘Pied Piper’ of Eastby There are some extraordinary and very interesting […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Historic Village Boundaries
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. The modern boundaries for the villages of Embsay with Eastby are simple to follow on an […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Embsay’s 19th Century Pigeon Racing Champion
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. John Parkinson Whittingham, known as ‘Park’ Whittingham, was born in 1857 and moved to Embsay as […]
Interested In Local History?
This article comes in audio format. To listen, just click on the play icon below. Embsay-with-Eastby Historical Research Group have published Volume 2 of “Historical Notes”, with articles on a range of […]
