New release: GOOLE, A PICTORIAL HISTORY, VOL. 4 by Susan Butler.
Now available from local shops and to order online.

Keep up with local history news and information in the area on my blog - East Yorkshire History

These pages are the beginning of a series about the history of Goole drawn from my own archives. I've been writing and teaching about the town's history for over 30 years and have gathered a large amount of information, booklets, maps and pictures about most aspects of Goole's history.

I also provide a professional genealogy research service for Yorkshire and the whole UK, as well as a large collection of Goole old photographs.

I regularly undertake local archive research and can search records based in Goole and elsewhere in Yorkshire on request. Please contact me to inquire further.

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On these pages you can read about:

• Goole's People - a lot of information has been gathered about a wide range of people who lived in Goole over the past two centuries and made their own contribution to the life and history of the town.

• Boothferry Road, Goole - find out more about the changing face of Boothferry Road, Goole over the years, including shop and family memories.

• History of the Lowther Hotel, Goole - read about the Lowther's special place in Goole's history. From its origins as the Banks' Arms Hotel to details of past landlords, 19th century riots at the Lowther, Zeppelin raids and more.

• Goole in 1810 - a description of how the young Susanna Storr visited the new town and her first impressions of early Goole.

• Goole census of 1828 - see if your ancestor was on this very early Aire and Calder Company census of Goole.

Above: Looking down Boothferry Road showng the Clock Tower and Cinema Palace

Below: Hackforth's, which was one of Goole's favourite grocer's shops and where many a wedding reception was held in its popular upstairs cafe