A decade ago the Mason’s Arms closed for the last time, ending the life of an Eastby village Inn that had been on the site for at least 400 years. The current […]

There is a local tradition of a gaol in Eastby where drunks, especially navvies, were thrown overnight to sober up. A building with bars on the window on the north side of […]

An Embsay-with-Eastby History post from the diary of Annie Parker Greenwood of the Mason’s Arms, Eastby Annie Parker Greenwood lived at the Mason’s Arms, Eastby with her widowed mother Elizabeth, younger sister […]

After all the Armistice commemorative events held in 2018 it may seem superfluous to return to the subject of the First World War. But it is important to remember that the war’s […]

Eastby Pound sits at the bottom of Eastby Bank, where the road turns sharply into the village, adjacent to Bark Lane and Eastby Hall.  As all local residents know, Eastby Bank is […]

Distrust of new medical advances, the spread of fake news, conspiracy theories, and a distaste for State intervention in “personal liberty”, are nothing new.  In the 18th and 19th Centuries a variety […]

The photograph below shows thirteen ladies from Eastby, and probably also Embsay, at some sort of gathering. I think the photograph may have been taken in the garden at Bridge End Cottage, […]