Today, 12.18 pm

Parish Magazines have always been a good source for items of local history interest. The Filey Envoy , currently edited by Marilyn Briggs, is carrying on a tradition established over a hundred years ago by ‘The Walking Parson’ to offer parishioners informative and entertaining glimpses into the past of the area served by the churches of St Oswald, St John and St Thomas.

.Marilyn has been a great help to me, providing information, offering photographs – and correcting my mistakes. Quite a number of Looking at Filey blog posts have been much improved by her contributions. I also realize now that I have written about people and events in Filey’s history that have featured in past issues of the Envoy so I asked Marilyn recently if she would archive some of the parish magazine’s historical pieces on the Looking at Filey Wiki  so that visitors to LaF can have an alternative view of some events and enjoy a singular perspective on others.

Issues of The Filey Envoy from April 2010 to the present may be downloaded as PDFs from Google docs via the Parish Blog website so Marilyn has started this ball rolling with articles from 2008 and you can find them on the LaF Wiki in Envoy 2008, a sub-folder of Filey Envoy. Within a “Year Folder “ you will find “Month Pages”, each carrying one or two articles. If the events and people describedcan also be found on the LaF Blog or the Filey Community Tree­ links will be supplied. Take a look at the September 2008 Wiki Page to see if this collaboration works for you.