GooLe-On-The-Web.org.uk - Guide to information on the UK town of Goole
Title
Goole on the Web - Welcome
Description
Company Town
By the start of the nineteenth century, Goole was nothing more than a collection of cottages at the entrance to the Dutch River (where the current Old Goole is situated). When the entrance of the Aire & Calder canal was chosen to be at Goole instead of Selby or Airmyn, grand plans were made for the new town. These images show one vision of how the town might have looked. The plans were too ambitious and only part of them were built with the official opening of the town.
Only Aire Street and some of the side streets off it remain of the original town. Aire Street was very wide and grand and had huge imposing buildings such as the Lowther Pub. The A&C buildings has distinctive round corners. The conditions of the buildings of the main street were actually very poor with people living in cramped conditions and having to use unhygienic alleyways that were home to the rats.
In the early days, Bridge Street, along with Aire Street, was a thriving commercial area with shops and houses lining both sides of the road. There were also many pubs serving the dockworkers and visiting sailors.
