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 – Historic Village Boundaries
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 […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Crown Spindle Mill & the Myth of Bayonet Making
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. Of the seven mills built in Embsay and Eastby only two still remain; Embsay Mill and […]
WI – June Meeting
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. The WI June meeting is on Tuesday 13th of June at 7pm. The Speaker is Sue […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Repairing Eastby’s Roads
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. Repairing the roads through Eastby in the mid-19th century In 1865 the newly created Highways Board […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Old Field Boundaries
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. Old field boundaries in Embsay and Eastby. The oldest field name that we know about in […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Coronation Celebrations, 1911
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. In Embsay library’s local history files there are two photographs of the celebrations of the coronation […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Historical Landscape Reports
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. Chris Lunnon of the Embsay With Eastby Research Group has produced two reports into the historical […]
Embsay with Eastby History – Alice, The Weary Housewife & Mother
This article is available in audio format, please click on the play icon below to listen. Alice, the weary housewife and mother. At the end of a long monotonous day, dealing with […]
