Did you know ...

  • In 1839, Francis Drake was alive and living at No.7 Ouse Street, Goole.  Appropriately, he was working as a Waterman!!
  • The population of Goole in 1821 was 450.  By 1831 this had risen to 1671..  In 2010, there were 17,600 inhabitants!!
  • In 1886. it was deemed necessary to read the Riot Act in Goole.  This was carried out by a Mr Bladworth, J.P., in front of the Lowther Hotel but, unfortunately, there was so much noise from the rioters that hardly anyone could hear what was being said!   http://thegooleexperience.weebly.com/the-goole-riots.html .
  • Seen in the Goole and Marshland Gazette, 19th August 1871:
Wholesale & Retail Basket & Perambulator Manufactory, 43 Market Place, Hull.
J.W. Beeton, .Proprietor.
The Challenge Perambulator
4s.6d. each,
​warranted to carry a child 8 stones weight.
OUCH!!!
  • Mr Google might have been around in 1660 - but not in Goole!!!
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Ancestry.com. UK, Poll Books and Electoral Registers, 1538-1893 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: London, England, UK and London Poll Books. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library.
Image from Poll Book of 1660, from the parish of St Horatio, Townsend Barr.
  • Well, we've all heard of Hurricane Fish ... but have you heard about Hurricane Goole??
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Nottingham Review and General Advertiser for the Midland Counties - Friday 18 January 1839 Image © THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.