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Tuesday, 9th February 2010

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Wally Simpkin's look at East Riding history

We want soomm o' this heer 'cetyleeane gas Based on sketches from Woz'ls by J A Carlill

HISTORY TRAIL - with Wally Simpkin John Mortimer in the introduction to , ' Forty years Researches in British and Saxon Burial Mounds', says:

Equipment and tools of the village blacksmith THE blacksmith, gaunt and strong, was a man of wisdom and experience, who knew the click of every horse shoe on the road and whose forge it came from.

Corn dollies - a way of saying thank you to the crops Many countries had a custom surrounding the last armful of corn in the field.

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Freemen in the best sense of the word

Conducting parish business

The village doctor

The rise and fall of almshouses

Hats off to the milliners

High-stepping champion of the hackneys

Weshday blues

William Taylor, the Driffield inventor and other personalities

Sailor sees changes on the Wolds

The advent of the Christmas card

Threshing day

Flavour of the Wolds

Oil lamps for all purposes

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