Top Stories Goole, a Pictorial History Vol 2
Susan Butler
£4.50 + £1.75 P&P
ISBN: 1 9 00503 00 1
There are many families in Goole who have not had some connection with the docks, the shipping companies and the waterways. When a Goole ship was lost, the whole time mourned.
This second volume of Goole, a pictorial history tells the story of the change from sail to steam. It tells of the rise of the Goole Steam Shipping Company, of Bennetts' Red Cross Line, of the Goole captains and their adventures. There are photographs of many of the ships and of the docks.
But this is not just a book about ships. It concentrates on the time up to the First World War when the coal trade was flourishing and Goole was prosperous. There are pictures of Boothferry Road, of Pasture Road, of Bridge Street and of Greenawn Corner.
It was a time of chapel and church buildings and there are the stories of Carlisle Terrace, of the United Free Methodists and of St Paul's.
And there are the people: the schoolchildren, the football teams and the characters of those years such as Goole's grand old man, Benjamin Andrews and C.J. Forth, first headmaster of the Grammar School.
Do you remember Branson Bowles, Crappers and Shipleys' post office ? they are all here.
And did you know that 450 Goole men were killed in the First World War? Their names are listed in this book.