Osgodby Heritage & History Group

We looked forward to our third visit, by invitation, to display our research and findings at the Selby Abbey Medieval Day. As in previous years, Colin kindly took the displays to the Abbey the evening before and we were able

Thank you to everyone who came along to the talk on Mary Ward. Sr Patricia from Bar Covenant, York shared her immense knowledge on the life of Mary Ward. She said she could have spent another few hours on her

We took delivery of our new flyers today – a trip round the local libraries calls to ensure we’re #puttingosgodbyonethemap

We went to collect the hard copies of the aerial photographs – they look great. Arriving at 10:20am, Jan and Shirley looked at a few odd documents and then loaded-up the microfiche to read the Barlby & Osgodby Parish Council

Jan and Shirley went on an interesting train journey today. They went to North Yorkshire Archives in Northallerton to seek aerial photographs of Osgodby. On arrival, we had to explain we were Osgodby near Selby – not Osgodby Scarborough, Thirsk

Shirley was feeling very excited today – drones were coming to Osgodby. About 30 people attended the Aerial Archaeology Workshop. Jon Kenny, Community Archaeologist, and Tony Hunt, Yorkshire Archaeology Mapping, ran the afternoon covering all aspects of aerial archaeology, taking

We were on the road today – #puttingosgodbyonethemap. We had a display at the Selby Abbey Living History day. This is an annual event, and as a result of attending the networking meeting on 25 July at Selby District Council

It was a busy day for us. It was the Afternoon Tea for our specially invited guests. About 40 people attended the event. Some folk had not seen each other for years, and others didn’t recognise folk. It was great

Jan and Shirley attended the “Celebrating Selby’s Heritage” workshop at Selby District Council offices. It was organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Selby District Council. It was great to listen to other HLF projects around the district. We came

Jan, Mark, June, Dave, Karen, and Shirley visited the East Yorkshire Archives in Beverley. A big list of archives had been pre-ordered and awaited us on our arrival. A £10 fee for a photograph permit for the day was well