Barnsley farmers Rob and Dave Nicholson head to Halifax to find out more about their mum's side of the family. They start at Dean Clough Mill where their mum Cynthia started work as a 15 year old before heading to the Shibden estate – a place grandma Olive took them for days out as kids. It's their first trip back in 40 years. They also look inside the home of celebrated diarist Anne Lister, aka Gentleman Jack, and visit the kitchen their great grandmother Eliza worked in as a cook in the 1900s.

In South Yorkshire, an ambitious restoration project is nearing completion on the unique monument Keppel's Column. The 35-metre-high folly, commissioned in 1773, has been inaccessible to the public for decades but as Rotherham council's Lisa Haworth is about to find out, that's all about to change.

At the Humber lifeboat station on Spurn Point in East Yorkshire, it's a big day for Sean ‘Chez' Cheston. He's training to be a coxswain and his seafaring skills are about to be tested to the max as he leads a ‘man overboard' exercise under the watchful eye of station coxswain Joe Pieniak. If Chez passes today's test, he could be leading a real rescue in a few weeks' time.

And in Horsforth, six miles from Leeds, things are buzzing for local chef Matt Healy. His newly opened restaurant is going from strength to strength, and he's now looking to extend his menu and add new desserts that are grounded in Yorkshire heritage. Matt heads to a rhubarb farm in Rothwell which is in the centre of Yorkshire's famous rhubarb triangle where fifth generation farmer, Lindsay Hulme, shows Matt the dark art of forced rhubarb production before Matt serves up rhubarb treats to Lindsay back at the restaurant.

Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright is helping out wife Lin in the kitchen as they prepare to serve up Sunday lunch for his visiting brother David and his wife Denise. Then Peter and Lin visit Malton, the market town that locals proudly proclaim to be the gastro capital of Yorkshire. They meet up with craft brewer Howard Kinder and help him create a beer with Yorkshire puddings.

On the east coast, we catch up with fifth generation fisherman Will Jenkinson. In summer and spring Will spends most days at sea but in the colder months when crabs and lobsters are hibernating, Will and crew carry out important repair work in their warehouse. At home we meet Will's family and discover if there will be a sixth generation of Jenkinson's fishing off the coast of Scarborough in coming years.

In Southowram, West Yorkshire twenty-five-year-old farmer Stephen Short is enjoying the fruits of his hard labour. His flock of 200 sheep has been bolstered by 150 new lambs and in his calving sheds, there are 18 new calves. But his focus today is with new sheep dog pup Whin, she's a bit of a loose cannon and Stephen needs to train her up if she is to become a fully-fledged member of his workforce.

And in the Yorkshire Dales, off-grid living Adam and Moira Domican-Gough are making progress at Crina Bottom, a remote 17th century farmhouse tucked away in a corner of the Dales near the village of Ingleton. Today, they are putting the finishing touches to their tea and cake kiosk that they hope will tempt in passing tourists and they are preparing for a VIP guest as 105-year-old Margaret drops into Crina Bottom, which was her mother's childhood home in the 1890s.