The information below covers the area between the clock tower (itself erected in 1927, although dated 1926!). This page covers the odd numbers and is not yet complete.
Numbering is difficult as much of Boothferry Road was built or considerably altered in the twentieth century and several shops moved premises up and down the road. This was Goole’s main shopping street and is now partly a pedestrian precinct
Market Hall
The present hall was opened in 1896 to replace an earlier structure which burned down in 1891.
The market hall after the fire. Not only did it house the market, but shops and the Freemasons lodge and the town records
Cinema Palace
The Cinema Palace opened on November 20th 1914. Mr Grayson was the manager. It was sold in 1920 to a group of businessmen including Wallace Rockett. Later managers were Mr Wilmot and Mr Harper who married Mr Rockett’s sister Olive. He was an ex-police inspector and stopped the picture if there was too much noise from the audience. The projectionist was called Carter. Edgar Buttle was the organist. Basil Falkingham, who was possibly Olive’s son-in-law, was in the orchestra which preceded the organ.
There was a sweet shop built into front of the cinema.
Gas showroom
Arthur Read, jeweller
His Boothferry Road shop moved here after the war.
Fine Fare/Shoppers Paradise
This was probably Goole’s first supermarket. Everything was stacked in boxes from which you helped yourself.
Nat West Bank
This used to be Anglesey House, built in 1888 for Dr Robert Blair. It stood originally on its own until the Goole Times building was erected in 1894. Dr Blair, who was Scottish, died in 1909 and part of the house became the National Provincial Bank. A side entrance gave access to the surgery of Dr Cass and later to Drs Cretney. There used to be a hut where you went for prescriptions.
From 1972 it became entirely the Nat West.
Number 15
Built 1897.
For many years this was occupied by Fred Huggins, ironmonger. Fred’s son Norton Huggins was a plumber. This was the only place in Goole in the 1920s where you could buy fireworks for Bonfire night.
Later it was White and Carters’ pet shop, then Woodcock travel.
This is Boothferry Road in 1926 when Goole celebrated its centenary. Hugggins’ shop is on the extreme right with Rocketts and the Goole Times further along. George Bell’s advertisement is prominent on the end of the original Wesleyan Manse.
Number 17
Built 1897.
In the 1930s this was Rockett’s, selling coats and gowns. Mrs Olive Harper [Mr Rockett’s sister] kept Rockett’s. She sat on a chair and stared at you. If you asked for something out of the window you felt you had to buy it.
Later the shop was Peggy’s baby and women’s wear run by Mrs Cowling, then Michael’s opticians.
You went down the side of No.17 and then upstairs to get to J A Curran, electrical [17a]. Mr Curran was the first manager of YEB but then left and went into business on his own.
Number 19 Cancer Research (formerly Goole Times)
1894 Goole Times buildings erected with printing works behind.
It was originally numbered as number 15 but renumbered [sometime before 1911] after the present numbers 15 and 17 were built.
Remembered workers there were Mr and Mrs Harry [in the shop], Charlie Ayre, Mr Ernest Knott, Margaret Pinder, Eva Kirby in bookbinding, Margaret Woodhead, Mary White and editor Ernest Butler.
Numbers 21 to 25
The property next to the Goole Times was for many years a cafe but before that it was a private house and school called Westholme.
It was the home of Mrs Mary Ann Patten and was for a time run as a school by her daughters. Mrs Patten, who died in 1895 at Westholme, was born Mary Ann Duckels and was the widow of Henry Dalton Patten. Mary Ann came from a long established Goole family and her father Thomas owned the North Street brewery. She was his only child and when he died she became the owner of the brewery. She married her father’s brewer, Henry Dalton Patten in 1852 and they had a family of 5 daughters.
But sadly Henry drowned in the docks in 1864 leaving Mary Ann to bring up Mary, Minnie, Emily, Kate, and Edith. She sold the brewery around 1877 and by 1881 the family were living in Boothferry Road and taking young lady boarders.
The school advertised in 1896 but presumably at some point the remaining daughters then sold the property.
In later years it had shops on the front of it such as Clarksons and then the Lyceum cafe. At some point, it was demolished and the YEB showrooms stood on the site.
Clarksons were the occupiers in 1908. They were at 32 Sotheron St and at Burlington Crescent. They had a bakehouse but later advertised as Clarkson’s Temperance Hotel on Boothferry Rd. It was described as ‘Refreshment rooms’ in an early 20th century picture and other occupants were Newell and Tasker.
Then it became the Lyceum cafe, run by Riches. Jenny ?Macken worked there. You could get a pot of tea and a toasted teacake for 2d.
Riches became George L Wright, electrical. Mr Wright came from Gledhills. He later went into partnership with a Mr Jackson. Mr Jackson had only one arm, having lost the other whilst working as a joiner at the YEB.
There was a hairdressers above.
Number 27
On early pictures and in 1908 de Cobain’s cycle shop was next to the refreshment rooms/cafe.
Albert de Cobain was the eldest son of the vicar of Swinefleet and although he too was destined for the church, he preferred bicycles and cars.
Sometime in the early 1930s Mr Philip Seltzer took the shop, selling mainly leather goods. Mr Seltzer sold sports goods, handbags, satchels etc. He also sold footballs, tennis balls and would re-string tennis rackets. He travelled from Hull every day on the train.
When the shop lease ran out in the 1970s he moved into Northern Clothing.
Assistants were Margery Busfield, Mr Birks.
Numbers 27 and 29 were possibly demolished and rebuilt.
Occupied in 2006 as Card Fair.
Number 29
1908 George Marritt’s boot and shoe shop
1911-21 this was the Yorkshire Penny Bank until it moved to new premises in Market Square
1922 Mary Barraclough confectioner
1930s Elite tobacconist and confectioners ‘Bon Bon shop’ [W and M Hepworth]
1940 Elite, G. W. Glentworth, tobacconist, 29 Boothferry Road & 73 Pasture Road
?Miss Depledge had a sweet shop here. Later she moved to the kiosk on the station
Alleyway
Numbers 31 and 33
This was originally one house, built as the Wesleyan Manse.
1901 census shows James Thompson, grocer, born Halifax [his son Arthur was a baker too].
In 1907 it was still James Thompson’s grocers and bread bakers. Mr Thompson was uncle to Harry Hackforth and had his bakehouse across the road in Young’s yard.
By the early 1920s it had become George Bell [grocer, who sold baking powder, according to the big advert on the gable end of his shop].
By 1926 it was Harry Boom’s, outfitter.
Harry Boom lived on Hook Road. The chief shop asssistant was Tony Marshall. Also Rena Woodhouse worked there. They supplied Goole Grammar School uniforms.
Upstairs was the Unemployment Office and Pearl Assurance.
The premises were later converted into two shops between the alley and Woolworth’s.
Number 31 became first the Halifax [Mr Crowther was manager] and became Bradford and Bingley.
The second shop [number 33] became Greenwoods and later Thomas the Baker
Woolworth’s (numbers 35-39)
Before Woolworth’s there was a house which incorporated a pastry shop on the site. Woolworth’s was purpose-built and opened on 22nd July 1933.
The Goole Times of July 21st reported that:
‘After fourteen weeks of record hustle the next Goole store of Messrs. F. W. Woolworth and Co. is now ready for opening to-morrow at 9 a.m. To-day the store will be open from 2.30 p.m. to give the public an opportunity to inspect the goods. Fourteen weeks ago work was begun on the demolition of property on the site and actually work on the building did not commence until eleven weeks ago. By having the store completed in such a short time the builders have accomplished a record for the town. The store has been constructed on the most modern lines, with the latest lighting effects, and attention has been paid for the comfort of shoppers by providing extra wide aisles to avoid conjestion.{sic} Over 95 per cent. of the goods sold in the store are of British manufacture and for one’s sixpence a wonderful range is presented. The storerooms on the second floor have been built on hygienic lines, while attention has been paid to the comfort of the staff, 35 members of which are local girls. Cloakrooms, centrally heated, have been provided for them, and there is a spacious dining and rest room.’
It was a 3d and 6d store and crowds flocked in from all around the area when it opened. It was updated in 1984.
Remembered staff were Maisie O’Donnell, Marion Webster, Dot Ward, Eileen Bovill, Sheila Burton.
Mr Wilburn was the first manager. He married Miss Kitchen.
Number 41
Zerny’s. Last premises before alleyway.
It could previously have been Holroyd cleaners.
In 1907 there were no more shops between here and the station. There was however a private house which stood back, occupied by the Horsley family and later by J Burniston, solicitor.
Number 43
Crest jeweller
Number 45
Coomes footwear
Number 47
Fruit and veg
Another alleyway
This area is now rebuilt
The buildings here were originally wooden.
Numbers 49-51
Memory Lane
Number 53
Prestons, a cheap goods shop. A man came every day from Leeds.
Number 55
Outrigger clothes
Number 57
Famous Army Stores [last shop before Station yard]
Possibly was formerly Bata shoes. You could get nylons there in the war.
Boothferry Road before pedestrianisation. Famous Army Stores shop is on the left
Numbers are confusing but in 1937ish somewhere were:
Hardcastle Brook cycle agents
Mrs Hilda Harrison, ladies’ outfitter
Ascot gowns
Mrs Crapper
Clifton jewellers
Philip Richardson
Kettering & Leicester boot co
H & C Sargentson, drapers
Somewhere too was Lep travel; almost opposite Lep offices in Belgravia
Bensons shoes
Over the crossing
67 Station Hotel
This stood on the corner of Boothferry Road and Wright street [ now Pasture Road]. It was owned and possibly built by Thomas Weatherill as the Red Lion Inn. He and his wife Rebecca nee Wright were living there at the Red Lion in 1851 and 1861
In 1867 Thomas Weatherill was still there but it was now called the Station Hotel.
Nb The NER line which still cuts through the middle of Goole today was opened in 1869
1874 Mr. Glentworth landlord
In 1884 George Cutt advertised ‘that the Station hotel has been completely Re-Furnished. Re Decorated and Repaired, and is now one of the most complete and commodious Inns connected with the Port of Goole, being situated within half-a-minute’s walk of the North-Eastern Railway Station. Good Wines, Ale. and Liquors always to be had. Well-aired Beds. Dinners, Luncheons and Teas provided at short notice. Cigars of prime quality.
1890 George was also a brickmaker! He advertised in 1890 that he has pleasure in announcing that having put down Plant and Machinery of the latest construction for the Manufacture of bricks and tiles, he is now prepared to supply goods of quality, and at moderate prices, and respectfully solicits the favour of a trial order. Orders to any extent promptly attended to. Works—Potter Grange. Residence—Station Hotel. By 1901 he was working as a pilot in Hull and then moved to Hampshire where he died.
By 1891 Icon Heppenstall had taken on the tenancy. The hotel was rebuilt in 1894 while he was landlord. He left to go to the brewery in North St where he died in 1913.
1901 George Edward Scarlett, a Londoner was at the Station hotel with family and 10 servants
1908 W Baker
1930 FORMER GOOLE COUNCILLOR Death of Mr William Baker former Goole resident, Wm. Baker, who for several years was landlord of the Station Hotel, Goole, has died at Hove, Brighton. Mr Baker, while at Goole, was a popular personality. He took an interest in public life, and was elected member the Goole Urban Distrct Council. He was former president of the Goole Town F.C.. and it was largely due to his efforts that the team, before the war, gained admittance to he Midland League. He left Goole in 1909.
1910 Samuel Harry Hicks new licensee
October 1914
Amidst manifestations of general regret the remains of the late Mr S. H. Hicks, of the Station Hotel, Goole, who was fatally injured j through being thrown from his horse whilst out riding at Airmyn last week-end, were interred in the cemetery yesterday afternoon. Large numbers of people lined Boothferry-road to witness the passage of the cortege. The hearse was covered with floral tributes, included a wreath from the football club, of which deceased was director.
He was 35 and left a widow and three children
1926 Edward C Williams licensee E C Williams ‘lately reconstructed and decorated’
1936 Arthur W Stafford
No 69 [27]
Tower View built 1883 [ so called because of view of the water tower]
1897 Kelly’s Directory Millard Brothers, pawnbrokers, 5 Bridge Street, Market Square & 27 Boothferry Road
1901 electoral registers Thomas William Millard, house & shop and Joseph Henry Millard, 27 Boothferry Road
1901 Census uninhabited, Millard brothers lived elsewhere
1922 Kelly’s Directory Millards (Doncaster) Ltd. pawnbrokers, 69 Booth Ferry Road
1927 Kelly’s Directory Branson Bowles, 69, 71 & 73 Booth Ferry Road & 5 Bridge Street
Wetherell’s men’s dept
Abbey Studios, photography
2006 Burnitts photograpy and framing
No 71 [29] Tower View built 1883
1891 Census Robert Hudson, 38, printer & bookseller, born Yks Richmond 29 Booth Ferry Road
1901 Branson Bowles, house & shop, 29 Boothferry Road
1901 Census Uninhabited,
Branson Bowles, 69, 71 & 73 Booth Ferry Road
Wetherell’s
2006 Humberside Career & Guidance Services, 71 Boothferry Road
No 73 [31] Tower View built 1883
1891 Frederick Horlaker, 40, pork butcher, born Germany, Wurtenburg. 31 Booth Ferry Road
1893 GT 20th Jan Report of a burglary at F. Horlakers’s shop at Tower View
1897 Kelly’s Directory Frederick Horlaker, pork butcher, 31 Booth Ferry Road & Old Goole
1901 Electoral Register Sarah Bennett, house & shop, 31 Boothferry Road
1911 GTIA Hilda D. Mobbs, 31 Boothferry Road
1911 G T 18th Aug p. 11 Advert – Branson Bowles, 71 – 73 Boothferry Road. Draper
no 75 [33] Tower View built 1883
1891 William Bilton, 28, boot dealer, born Portsmouth. 33 Booth Ferry Road
1897 Public Benefit Boot Co. (William Bilton manager), 33 Boothferry Road
1901 Uninhabited, in occupation
1911 Annie Hinsley, 33 Boothferry Road bake
Annie HINSLEY, aged 70, died 6th April 1919 at 75 Boothferry Road
1922 Miss Annie HINSLEY, 75 Booth Ferry Road
Blanche & R J HINSLEY, 75 Boothfery Road
1932 J. HINSLEY, 75 Boothferry Road
1947 and 1953 Jos Richardson coal merchant
Eric Peter Nickless, tobacconist
1993 Oxfam
2006 equinox hair salon
No 77 [35] Tower View
1885 GT 14th Aug. at Chapeltown Pudsey Jessie Maud aged 2 daughter of Mr Henry Swann 35 Tower view
1901 Census James 41, manager boot shop, born Yks Melbecks. 35 Boothferry Road
James Metcalf, house & shop, 35 Boothferry Road (1897 Kelly’s Directory, manager of BLAKEY & Son, boot warehouse, Boothferry Road)
Annie Soulsby KETTLE, 25, died 20th May 1905 at 35 Tower View, Boothferry Road
1911 Hannah KETTLE, 35 Boothfeny Road
Advert – Misses KETTLE, 77 Tower View, Boothferry Road
1917 Miss Rosa KETTLE, draper, 77 Booth Ferry Road
Mrs F. WRIGHTSON, draper, 77 Booth Ferry Road
1922 Wallace ROCKETT, auctioneer, Bank Chambers, Church Street & 77 Booth Ferry Road
1927 Johnson Bros., dyers, 77 Booth Ferry Road
1936 Advert – “Bill” GOWDY’s, tobacconist & confectioner, 77 Boothferry Road
1977 Advert – Rutter’s, flowers, 77 Boothferry Road
77a
Hermits Ltd., confectioners, 77a Booth Ferry Road
Mrs E. M. COOK, confectioner, 77a Booth Ferry Road
Country Garden, fruit & veg
Sporting Arena, sports goods, 77a Boothferry Road
No 79 [37] Tower View
1901 census Fred Heppenstall, 28, tailor (merchant), born Huddersfield 37 Boothferry Road
1904 Julia Heppenstall, aged 34, died 22nd November 1904 at Tower View
1911 F. Heppenstall, 37 Boothferry Road
1915 F. Heppenstall, 79 Boothferry Road
1925 – A. Reeds, clothing, 79 Boothferry Road
Alfd. Reed, gents’ oufiter, 79 Booth Ferry Road
1936 Gallons Ltd, grocers, 79 Booth Ferry Road
Michael Edward, hairdresser
Screeton’s, estate agents, 79 Boothferry Road
No 81 [39] Tower View
1901 Electoral Register Miriam Wilkinson dwelling house, 39 Boothferry Road
1901 Census Uninhabited, not in
1903 Electoral Register Arthur William WATTS, house & shop (succ), 39 Boothferry Road
1911 T. Flower, 39 Boothferry Road
1911 GT 18th Aug p. 11 Geo. Kelshaw, 81 Boothferry Road. Pawnbroker
1927 G. Kelshaw, 81 Boothferry Road
1936 Blakey M. & Co. Ltd. paperhangings dealers. 81 Booth Ferry Road
1947 Donald Parish, gents outfitter, 81 Boothferry Road
K A De Cobain
2006 Boothferry Mobility, 81 Boothferry Road
No 83
1912 C. W. Rawnsley, 83 Boothferry Road (1915 at 2 Jefferson street)
1915 Public Benefit Boot Co, 83 Boothferry Road
1917 Public Benefit Boot Co. Ltd, Booth Ferry Road & 19 Bridge St
Florence Scott, aged 44, died 8th October 1921 at 83 Boothferry Road
1922 Public Benefit Boot Co. Ltd., 83 Booth Ferry Road & 19 Bridge Street
1927 Gunnill Interchangeable (Goole) Signs Ltd., sign makers, 83 Booth Ferry Road
1927 Public Benefit Boot Co. Ltd., 83 Booth Ferry Road & 19 Bridge Street
1936 Public Benefit Boot Co. Ltd., 83 Booth Ferry Road
1940 Advert – Madam Leslie, ladies fashions, 83 Boothferry Road
1958 Souvenir Brochure Advert – Janette, ladies fashions, 83 Boothferry Road
2006 La Bodrum
no 85
1912 Boothferry Road advert – B. Parish, 85 Boothferry Road
1917 Owen Parish, outfitter, 85 Booth Ferry Road
1927 Owen Parish, outfitter, 85 Booth Ferry Road
1936 G. Kelshaw, 85 Boothferry Road
Copper Kettle
2006 Royal Canto Takeaway
85a
1936 Mrs Harriett Braham, confectioner, 85a Booth Ferry Road
no 87
1936 Jn F. Chambers architect, 87 Booth Ferry Road
1936 Harold Howdle, boot retailer, 87 Booth Ferry Road TN 166
1953 Harold Howdle, shoes, Boothferry Road
Jack Broadbent, shoes
2006 Smiths Furnishings, 87 Boothferry Road
no 65 The Workhouse/ St John’s hospital
Goole Workhouse was given the number 65 Boothferry Road so that inmates who were born or died there did not have the stigma of the workhouse on their certificates. Unfortunately records of admissions etc have not survived
It is hoped to write a more detailed history but here are the main events
1839 workhouse built – situated, as workhouses often were, well away from the then main town. Shown on censuses as in Hook parish as much of Goole then was – confusing for family historians
First master and mistress William and Ann Lister
1867 George and Mary Waite – master and mistress of the Goole Union Workhouse. They had come from Hayton in Notts
Betsy Moore – Schoolmistress
140 inmates in 1867.
1891 Joseph Thomas Robinson aged 28 born Hook. Wife Blanche born Goole, daughter May aged 1
1918 The marriage has taken place at Goole of Mr Frederick Pye, L.R.AM., A.R.C.M,,of Whalley, and Miss May Robinson, only child of Mr J. T. Robinson, Registrar of Births and Deaths, Goole, My Pye is organist at Whalley, | Parish Church, whilst Miss Robinson has appeared on many occasions at Whalley as soprano vocalist,
Frederick Pye died in 1930 aged 54.
1944 The funeral took place at Goole to-day of Mr Joseph T. Robinson, aged 80. of Hook-rd., Goole. who was for 12 years master of Goole Poor-Law Institution, and for 29 years relieving officer and registrar of births and deaths at Goole. He retired in 1930. Mr Robinson sang in the choirs of Airmyn, Hook, and Goole parish churches.
1928
The wedding took place at the Goole Parish Church of Mr P. B. Cory and Miss Mabel A. Watson, who for some time have been the Master and Matron at the Goole Poor Law Institution.
1930
The Workhouse (65 Boothferry Road) became the County Poor Law
Institution
P.B. and Mrs CORY – Master and Matron
The building was now separated into three parts:
The House – For able bodied inmates. Men, aged 35-65, were employed in gardening, sweeping yards, chopping and sawing wood (This wood was delivered around the town by William ROOKE and Thomas BRADFORD.), peeling potatoes, and cleaning the male toilets. The women were occupied in making beds, washing, sewing, scrubbing dining tables and floors and cleaning the female toilets. Only essential work was carried out on Sundays, Good Friday and Christmas Day.
Men capable of looking after themselves were allowed out on Saturdays, from
1pm-9pm during the Summer months, 1pm-8pm in the Winter. They were given
free admission into the Picture House, plus 1oz Twist or Shag Pipe Tobacco.
Women were allowed out for a full day once or twice each month. They
were also given an allowance of 1/4lb sweets or toffees.
Visitors were allowed on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons, 2-4pm, unless
inmates were seriously ill, in which case visitors were allowed to visit to 10pm.
The Infirm Ward (for elderly inmates) – This was for men and women over 65
years of age and those unable to work, but able to keep themselves clean.
This section also accommodated a Children’s Ward, for ages 2-4 years.
Children over 5 years of age were placed in the Children’s Home at
Rawcliffe.
The Hospital Ward was in the back block – This section was built in 1872.
It was intended for bedridden cases of both sexes and also provided a maternity
ward. There was also a children’s ward for under 2 years of age and
children who had been born at the workhouse. In the 1880’s, this block was
also used as a fever hospital.
1946 Mr and Mrs P. B. Cory, the popular master and matron at the West Riding County Welfare Institution at Goole, are to retire at the end of the month. Mr Cory is a native of Great Yarmouth, where his father was a solicitor. In 1905, Mr Cory obtained his first appointment as master at the Rollesby institution under the East and West Flagg Board of Guardians, to which his grandfather was clerk. He remained at Rollesby until 1915, when he joined the Army, and served for four years with the Norfolk and Essex Regiments. In 1919 he was appointed! master of the institution at Huntingdon, and after 13 months there, he went to Hastings, where he spent four years. For the last 22 years e has been master at the Goole institution. During his 40 years as a master, there has been little change in poor law administration, says Mr Cory, apart from better food for the inmates. Strangely enough, the ‘new scale has come into being since food was rationed. The inmates now have the same rations as those allowed on the ration book. Mrs Cory has been the matron of the institution since 1925.
1948 The building became St John’s Hospital. It closed and was demolished 1989/1990
129 Mary hackforth