THE DIARY OF WILLIAM SELLERS

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Mr M Mainprize has come to live at The Grange moving there from Mr Crowe’s at Reighton. Mr Watson from North burton has taken Mr Burdass’s farm & Mr Coleman comes to Manor farm.
Weather cool & unsettled, fairly dry. Grass backward.
17^th. Finished sowing barley. Weather showery & cool.
27^th. Hard frost. Snow showers. Wind North.
Nine Filey fishermen have been drowned during the past ten days, seven by the blowing up of a drifter by a mine, two as the result of a coble accident near the brigg. A sow which was sold at a Grindale farm sale for £50 is rearing 15 pigs at the estate farm at Boynton.
27^th. 8 p.m. Snowing fast. Started at noon there is now six inches of snow on the flat and a lot of drift have just fetched the ewes & lambs from North Pasture into the stack yard & sheds. Wind East.
May 10^th. Finished sowing corn. Weather very unsettled.
25^th. Fire at Buckton Hall. Nothing left of the house but the walls. The fire was caused by a beam in the chimney catching fire. Only a little of the furniture was saved. Weather fine & dry.
June 1^st. The weather for fourteen days has been very fine.
6^th & 7^th. Sowing Swedes, weather still fine & dry.
8^th. Caught a very fine cock moorfowl. Brought it home for general inspection & then let it away again.
June 29^th. Showery day. We have had seven weeks of very fine weather with only very slight showers. Rain was much needed
July 1^st. Today & yesterday we have several hours rain. Wind North.
Very rough sea and high tides.
2^nd. Started hoeing turnips. Found a cuckoo in a larks nest in the North Pasture.
15^th. Showery. 19^th. Been to Brid to see the historical pageant.
19^th. Today is the day appointed for the peace celebrations. Tea was provided for the whole population of the village, after which there were sports for everybody who cared for them Wm. Jackson while going home to South field farm was run over by a motorcar and had his leg broken.