People, places and events captured in East Yorkshire villager's wartime diary

A BOOK OF JESSIE WILSON'S MUSINGS AND OBSERVATIONS, ALONG WITH PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS AND MORE, HAS BEEN PUBLISHED

- By DEBORAH HALL [e-mail] @DeborahHall15

THE transcript of a handwritten diary charting life in a wartime East Yorkshire village and beyond has been published. North Ferriby resident Jessie Wilson captured all the everyday goings-on from January 1941 to 1945.

A book of her words has been published by Swanland Heritage Centre. Jessie Wilson's diary, North Ferriby in the Second World War, is an illustrated transcription of her handwritten notes.

Deborah Parry, treasurer of Swanland Heritage Centre, said: "On January 1, 1941, Jessie Wilson began writing a diary in an exercise book.

"She recorded events happening in North Ferriby - including 'hatches, matches and dispatches, everyday life and wartime events which affecting Hull, East Yorkshire, the United Kingdom and overseas.

"Her entries concluded with the end of the war with Japan on VJ Day, August 15, 1945."