Boothferry Road Goole
Even numbers
N.B. The numbering begins over near the George IV pub.
Number 2
1928 Frances Wood
1937 Miss Tromans
Numbers 4-8 (George IV, later Old George)
1908 G Kent
1943 Mr. George Kent for many years a popular and respected figure in Goole died at his home, 33 Hook Road, at the age of 78 years. He was one of the “old school” and commanded the affection of a very wide circle of friends. He died after a brief illness, Mr. Kent was the elder son of the late Mr. and Mrs J. Kent, of Crowle, and was well known throughout the Isle of Axholme. For 32 years he was the licensee of the George Hotel in the Market Square, Goole. He was born near Rotherham, and later attended Roche Abbey Grammar School. Later he became apprenticed as a butcher. After taking up the licence of the George Hotel he proved a genial and knowledgeable landlord, and his late wife was equally popular. He took a great interest in politics and was a staunch Conservative, being one of the oldest members of the Conservative Club. He was a member of the Crowle Freemasons Lodge, and also a member of the R.A 0B. His wife died four years ago. He retired from hotel life 20 years ago, and was presented by many friends with a handsome grandfather clock, which became one of his most treasured possessions
Number 10
1908 C Appleyard
1928 G F and Christiana Appleyard
1937 Frank Crapper, butcher
Number 12
1908 Miss Gleadow
1937 Miss Gleadow
Number 14
1928 W Blyth
1937 Redford, hair & Evans tobacco
Over the road
St John’s Buildings
In 1859 the vicarage was built on the corner of Boothferry Rd and Stanhope St. Later a new vicarage was built on Hook Road and on May 3rd 1890 a new block of buildings, built around the old vicarage, was opened – this block was to be known as St John’s Buildings.
Number ?16 /16a
The first occupier of this shop was W Hall, cash draper
It was by 1908 run by Turpin Brothers, also as a drapers’
The corner was known for years as ‘Reno Valet corner’
Reno Valet was begun by James Lock of Grimsby in 1923. Later there were several more branches. Here you went to have your suits cleaned and pressed and shirts and collars starched. ‘Seagull’ Albert Smith came from Grimsby to run the Goole branch. It was also run by Alf Chappell. Arthur Read’s wife used to work there behind the counter. Seagull Smith later opened ‘Val’ cleaners down Pasture Rd. Named after his ?wife/daughter
Premises were later Kitwoods bakery.
Number 18
1937 Maynards, sweet shop
Number 20 ( formerly Heart Foundation)
In 1937 this was Hepworths, part of a chain. The shop was managed by Mr Caldicott. Also Mrs Coupland worked there.
The premises were later Bedford and Baines paints etc.
Number 22
In early pictures and possibly in 1908 Freeman Hardy and Willis, shoe shop, was here
Other pictures show W Spencer hairdresser next to Meadow dairy
In 1937 it was the Meadow dairy
It always smelled of cheese. Later DER radio rental.
Number 24
1908 Blackburn and Co, drapers
1937 Blackburn
Later Newton and Newton shoes
Number 26 (from 1978, Nationwide)
Wilkinson and Heald, wholesale grocers and provision merchants. They opened there in 1891 but had other large premises in Bridge street.
1891 census Swinefleet Road – Joseph Wilkinson, grocer, 26 born Doncaster and wife Caroline, born Leeds and daughter Gertrude. Living with them was Caroline’s brother, 16 year old Harry Heald.
1901 Wilkinson family living on Boothferry Road [Clifton Gardens end]
1917 Robert George Leggott
By 1922 Harry Hackforth’s, grocer’s and cafe
Harry was born in Goole, the son of John and Mary Hackforth who had originally run a grocer’s shop in Bridge St. John had died by 1891 but Mary was by then running a grocer’s in Boothferry Road.
Late 1920s/30s staff at Hackforth’s were Mr Duck [baker] assisted by Annie Mortimer and Dora Mapplebeck.
Doris Ayre [cook]
Mary Branford [kitchen help and waitress], May Crooke and Annie Grassby [waitresses]
Bob Walker, Arthur Thompson, Ivy Hinsley and Miss Worswick [grocery counter]
Nelly Worswick, Bertha Lockwood, Ethel Hutchinson and Lily Mortimer [confectionery counter]
George Ward [grocery boy]
Mr Hackforth, Miss Humphries Stella Appleyard [in the office]
One memory is that when there were railway horses Jim Paterson drove one which always stopped at back of Hackforth’s for a bun.
Harry Hackforth died in 1929. He committed suicide as he was worried about his business. It was continued by the Hackforth family.
Above Hackforth’s staff:
back row Dorothy Vause nee Dickins, Jean Gowler, nee Andrews, George Brant
front Mary Burton nee Bean, Mrs Kitwood, Eunice Harlington, Lena, Violet Bollingham
1969 Hull and East Yorkshire Times
One of Goole’s oldest grocery shops will close its doors for the last time on November 15. But the six employees at Hackforth’s Ltd., 26, Boothferry Road, will not become redundant. They will move across| the road to work at the supermarket of Fine Fare Ltd., who own Hackforth’s.
Number 28
1928 Freeman Hardy and Willis
Manager Mr York. Mary Wood worked there.
Number 30
1937 Liptons
Up to 1970s, then Bakers household goods etc
Number 32
1928 T B Chadwick
1937 Taylors drug
Known later as Timothy Whites and Taylors, part of a chain later bought out by Boots
Mr Jowett, manager. Taken over by Boots also at no 34
.Number 34
1928 J Crabtree
Numbers 36 and 38
1937 Cash boot co
Also at 38. Public Benefit boots. Miss Dews.
Number 40
1937 Home & Colonial
Now coffee bar
Mr Brooksbanks worked there. He wore a pince nez and a wing collar.
Number 42
1928 S Vickers
1930 Goole Funeral carriage co
1937 M& S Bazaar [1937]
Number 44 ( now Iceland)
1937 M&S Bazaar
Possibly M&S was previously further up the road [? Liptons]. Then a new shop was built 1936/7. It was said to have been built on land owned by Mr Hartmann. After his death he left everything to his ?nephew Ferdinand Ellicott. When the lease ran out M&S left Goole in 1990. Mr Vick was the manager and then in the war Mrs Harrison.
Number 46
Archway to houses and back of customs offices
Number 48
as 46
Number 50
1906 Althams tea and jam
Currys were there in 1920s. Currys made their own brand of bike. Mr Wiseman was manager.
1937 Claude Ingleby printer was over top of Currys.
Numbers 52 and 54
1906 Holroyds’ Maypole dairy
Still Maypole in 1937
Mr Gale was the manager [a fussy man]. If you bought butter they used butter pats. Joyce Cross worked there.
Number 56
1906 Jas Nelson and sons
Dewhurst, butchers in 1937
Number 58
1906 Mrs Heap
Boots [1937] Mr Dinwhiddy manager. Miss Dorothy Patterson assistant
[Bowles the dentist on the corner of Belgravia]
Number 60 (Halifax)
1906 J Huntington
1928 LEP Transport [upstairs/Belgravia]. During the war LEP was in charge of importing crated trucks as part of the lend/lease scheme and unpacking and assembling them. Walter Studer was in charge at this time and had a Ford V8. It was he who brought all the work to Goole, assembling the army trucks in the dock side sheds in South Street, Old Goole. The packing cases were first stored on Western Road in Goole and were then taken to South Street. Walter Studer’s son, Ronnie, joined LEP Transport after the war.
1930s Burtons shop. First manager was Taffy Evans. Killed in RAF. Sam Thompson served his time in Burton’s, part in factory, part in the shop.
Number 62 Railway Tavern (later Dorothy Perkins)
Built by Charlie Holmes as a pub for the workers on the new railway
1881 Charles Holmes, 24, b Goole; wife Fanny, b Carlton and daughter Mary Ann and son Charles at ‘Railway hotel’. He was described as beerhouse keeper.
1899 Kate Wiseman of the Railway Tavern beerhouse applied for a full licence
1908 J W Watson
1928 Railway Tavern, John Gilbert Watson ‘Jack’
Railway Tavern was known as Jack Watson’s
1940s L Marshall
1950s Charlie Hailstone, landlord in 1950s. Played for Goole Town before the war. Made a good hangover cure.
Number 64
1928 J Taylor
1937 Hull Savings
Hull Savings was a very small shop. Manager Mr Franklin. Len Waller was manager when it moved to new premises after the war.
Numbers 66 and 66a
1928 66 Holders pianos
1928 66a Harriet Hardwick & Minnie Madge
1937 Biller, taxes
This was where the Silver Library was. Some names: Mrs Dobson, Mary Jackson, Maisie Kirby, ?Margaret – went to be a ballet dancer.
There were 3 girls. You paid 2d a book. Went there because bit frightened of Uriah Wood at the public library and also the Silver Library got all the newest books.
Next to Silver Library was archway to Thompson’s garage. Vauxhall
Number 68
1937 C Southcott
Next to archway was sweetshop. Southcotts then Mrs Wilcox
Number 70 North Eastern now Costa
The North Eastern was built by Mr Turgoose after he had seen the popularity of the Railway Tavern. It was later kept by his son and daughter in law, Mr and Mrs Sylvester.
1877 John Silvester NE hotel
1881 North Eastern hotel. Robert Varley and wife.
[next door in Ann’s Villa was Mrs Ann Turgoose, widow, b Stainforth, 65
1881 at 1 Mariner’s Terrace was Patrick Dougherty, 39, b Airmyn, potato merchant; wife Olive, 33, b Stainforth and 1 year old daughter Ann Turgoose Dougherty.
1908 P Dougherty NE hotel
1911 Goole Giant’s Death, The death took at Goole on Sunday morning of Mr Patrick Dougherty, one of the best-known residents in the town. He was 70 years of age and was one of the first to deal in the potato growing business in the marshland district near Goole, which is now one of the best potato-growing areas in the country. Standing 6 feet 8 iinches high, and proportionately built, he was a striking figure. Twenty years ago he retired from the potato business, and became the proprietor of the North-Eastern Hotel, one of the principal licensed houses in Goole.
1928 North Eastern, B Lamb
Before war was Edwards
1950s Jock Macauley
Then 1970s was Rogers – Jackdaw Club.
This early picture of the North Eastern was handed to the then manager, Mr H A Rodgers, by a customer and shows the hotel before the alterations/extensions. The sign over the door reads ‘William Ross Cattanach, licensed to sell British and foreign spirituous liquors, ale, porter and tobacco’.
Another notice reads ‘Commercial hotel, refreshment and dining rooms. Dinners daily, four courses 2s 6d. Luncheons, teas and suppers for any number on the shortest notice.’The photo was taken by Goole photographer William Westoby, who was taking pictures in Goole in the 1880s/90s.
Number 72
Number 74
1928 T H Scott
Just before the station was a house on the left where the Misses Watson lived. Subway was behind.
Over the crossing
Platt and Featherstone builders.
from the Goole Times February 2nd 1945
A man who has “left his mark” on the town, Mr. Frank Platt of “Rosegarth” 112, Hook Road, Goole, passed away on Thursday week after a short illness. He was 58. As a principal of the firm of Platt and Featherstone, Ltd., builders and contractors, he was responsible for many public buildings and housing schemes in the town over a period of 25 years.
Third son of Mr. and the late Mrs. George O. Platt, of Montagu Cottage, Hook, he was born in Goole, and went with his parents to Hook as a boy. He became apprenticed to a local builder and on completing his articles went for further experience to Montreal, Canada. Then he returned to this country and after marrying Miss Eliza Ann Moorfoot, of Reedness, went back to Canada. He went back to Hook two or three years before the last war and started in business on his own.
[Summary of rest of the article] Moved to Goole in 1919. Secured the contract for some of the first council houses in the Goole area – six at Airmyn, and went into partnership with Mr. Herbert Featherstone in 1920. Firm became Ltd.in 1926 and his only son joined as a director. Did a lot of work for H. M. Office of Works. Also built the Scout Hut (gutted in the 1943 aircraft crash), the General Post Office, the Centenary Clock Tower, the Municipal Baths, the British Legion Club, Goole Working Men’s Club, the Child Welfare Centre, air raid shelters, Goole’s war-time nursery and Howden Flax Factory. Also work in Driffield, Castleford, Leeds, Cleethorpes, Grimsby, Doncaster, Halifax, Bradford and Barnsley. He was a member of the Aire & Calder Lodge of Freemasons and the Special Constabulary.
One son, Frank, and five daughters, Kathleen, Blanche, Nancy, Amée and Joan. All in the services [ in 1945]
Goole Times August 26th 1983
Mr Frank Platt died at his home in Churchside, Howden on Saturday after a short illness. Mr Platt (69) was managing director of Platt and Featherstone (Builders) Ltd., of Boothferry Road, Goole and Hailgate, Howden.
He was born in Hook and lived in this area all his life, taking over the family business in the 1940s on the death of his father, Frank.
The family has been in business as builders in the Goole area since 1926, and was responsible for many of the town’s landmarks.
These include the clock tower, the post office and telephone exchange in Victoria Street, the swimming baths, the library, the ambulance station, Mariner’s Court shopping precinct, Burton’s factory, BOC’s depot, numerous council houses and over 250 private houses.
The firm also built Eastoft primary school, the Royal Oak Hotel at Rawcliffe, Driffield isolation hospital, Barnsley labour exchange, Castleford covered market, Mark and Spencer’s shop at Hull, extensions to Halifax county court, and six telephone exchanges in the area.
Mr. Platt was responsible for negotiating the purchase of Murham Avenue rugby field and built the pavilion there using volunteer labour from his own staff, and many gifts of material from the firm’s own stocks and suppliers.
He leaves a wife and one son, Christopher, who succeeds him as managing director.
House numbers on Boothferry Road changed in 1911
Number 78/ 80 [old 42] Crappers
1897 Kelly’s – Strecker, G. & B., pork butchers 42 Booth Ferry Road and 86 South Street.
Goole Times August 14th 1914
To all whom it may concern.
Whereas certain cruel accusations and baseless insinuations have been circulated in Goole and district concerning the attitude of Mr. John George Strecker, of 78, Boothferry Road, Goole, pork butcher, at this time of crisis in the history of the country. And whereas such statements and accusations as are being made are both untrue and slanderous, and it is therefore necessary and advisible that the public of Goole should be made acquainted with the following facts, namely:-
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That the said John George Strecker has been resident in England since he was a boy, and has actually been living in Goole for the past 28 years.That he has for a great number of years been a naturalised British Subject.That he has been honourably engaged in business in Goole for the before mentioned period of 28 years.
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That England is the country of his adoption, and his loyalty and patriotism as a British Subject cannot be doubted.
Now therefore notice is hereby given that we, the undersigned solicitiors, have received peremptory instructions to take proceedings against any person or persons circulating, repeating, or publishing any such defamatory and untrue statements as have been made of and concerning the said John George Strecker.
Dated this twelfth day of August, 1914. Everatt & Silvester, 10 Victoria Street, Goole.Solicitors for the said John George Strecker.
The Strecker family, after suffering a lot of unpleasant treatment left Goole [ probably 1914] and moved to Wakefield
Messrs Crapper then took over the shop.
Goole Times June 18th 1943
Former well-known butcher Late Mr. W. Crapper, Goole
For many years a well-known pork butcher in the town, Mr. Willie Crapper died at his home, 10 Woodland Avenue, Goole, on Sunday night after a very brief illness. He was 72. Born in Sheffield, Mr. Crapper later had businesses in Wakefield and came to Goole in 1908 to establish a shop in Pasture Road. This was transferred in August 1914, to the premises in Boothferry Road, the business being carried on by his two younger sons following his retirement owing to failing sight seven years ago.
In his youth Mr. Crapper was a keen cyclist, but his life-long hobby was gardening and he grew particularly fine roses. He was a member of Goole Butchers’ Association. His wife, a Miss Tate, of Goole, died some years ago, and he is survived by three sons [Frank, Ronald and Edward] and three daughters
Number 82 [old 44]
J Shipley Post office
Number 84 [old 46]
T Sheppard and co music
Number 86 [old 48]
Percy Heppenstall, chemist
Montagu Street
Number 88 [old 50]
S G Gravell tailor in 1908
Flemings
Alf Fleming; Sid Gibson – carpet fitter; Mrs Hislop worked there – more or less ran it. Her husband was in Co-op; George Barker- salesman; Bob Holt handyman; Ron Buttle carpet fitter
Number 90 [ old 52]
Bon Marche in 1908; owner Mr Blyth also owned the laundry. Lived on Hook road. [not far from Mrs Hartley who was golfer]; Bon Marche manager Miss Ash ?; 2 floors; Flemings took it over
Number 92 [ old 54]
J Beaumont grocer in 1908; became Stanley Cooper- tailor out of Aire st; had other shop in Carlisle st/ Argyll st now Spar.
Glaves, manager
Then became Walthams. Then Eric Houlders.
Number 94 [ old 56?]
? was C Kelley in 1908
Featherstones drapers
Became Arthur Milners, then Howard Milner and now two daughters. Howard Milner married Ann Foster of Wendy Wools. Milners moved from Aire St.
Below is a newspaper article from 2007
Number 96 confusion here as number missing but only 6 shops in the block
Number 98 [ previously number 58]
1887 death of John Sidney, Boothferry rd aged 47
1897 [ Kelly’s] Barbara Sidney fruiterer. Also ad for business of Sidney and Peter, confectioner
1901 census confectioner
1918 death at ‘Grasmere’ [188 Boothferry Rd] of Barbara Sidney, widow of John. From obituary -widow of John Sidney who was in business in Aire st many years as fruiterer and before that was photographer in Wisbech and Goole. Mrs Sidney was daughter of Mr Shepherd who had a shop in George St and who attended local markets.She leaves daughter Mrs Peters and an adopted daughter.
1908 no. 58 was Kirby and Huggins. Kirbys ironmongers. Melias grocers- chain
Number 100 [ previously number 60]
Sunderlands butchers
Anthony Sunderland died in 1916. Stan in Weatherill st. Became Abdys butchers. children Colin, John, Doreen. Layburn tools, then cheap shop selling buckets etc
Gordon Street
Number 102 [previously number 62]
1897 Kellys- Clark bros grocers
1908 was H Clark
? Clarks became Percy Robinson
1934 Goole hosiery- Branfords. sold grey socks c 1960 Mr and Mrs Branford.
Then Wendy Wools. now Goole Times
Number 104 [ previously number 64]
1897 Thos Wm Coburn tailor
1908 was T W Coborn
still there in 1922 ‘opposite the union’
Numbers 104-112 was latterly the Coop
This block was Coop although was possibly a chemist between shoe shop and coop on corner
Coop Mr Whitehead gents suits; Coop Mr Clayton; Mr Wilson menswear. Money in containers
Number 106 previously 66
66 Boothferry rd was Bartlam and Thompsons, ironmongers
Before, or maybe at, 68 was William Headon who died in 1908 at 15 Argyle st [ late of Boothferry Rd] aged 44. fish and fruit
Number 108 previously 68
in 1908 was P H Blow
1928 no 108 was George Hopley fruit
Number 110 old number 70
1897 Kelly’s Thos Newton jnr, baker and confectioner
1908 T Newton
1924 Aug- funeral of Thos Newton, late of 22 Westfield Ave. Member of Goole grocers’ and bakers’ assoc.
no 110 in 1928 was H Wilkinson
in 1937 was the Coop
Number 112 old number 72
1897 F Reinhold Muller, 2 Jefferson st
1901 GT ad F R Muller, pianos, corner Jefferson st/ Boothferry rd
1908 Jackson’s stores
no 112 was the Coop in 1937
Jefferson street
Number 114 old no 74
E Kettle in 1908
no 114 was H Hodgson in 1928
was Northern clothing in 1937.
Hargreaves [new build]
Number 116 old no 76
Henderson in 1908
Number 118 old number 78
Kellys Wm Colbridge
1908 E Harris
no 118 was Mrs Emma Harris confectioner in 1928
in 1937 was Riches
Number 120 old 80
1908 Eastman Ltd
F Wrightson 1928
in 1937 was Fletchers fried fish
Number 122 old 82
1888 Imperial buildings built
Information from `The Century’s Progress’ [1893]
EW Greenwood, ironmonger, cutler and hardware merchant, 82 Imperial Buildings, Boothferry rd. Moved there 1891 ‘to provide accommodation for a rapidly growing population west of the Railway station’
1908 E W Greenwood
122 Altham’s
Number 124 old 84
1908 H Denton
1928 A W Haigh
1937 Whites wallpaper
Number 126 old 86
W Lockwood
1928
F Garrett
Goole Times November 2nd 1934
Mr. Fred Garrett Sudden death of Goole master butcher.
We regret to record the death, which occurred after a brief illness on Wednesday night, of Mr. Fred Garrett, master butcher, of 126 Boothferry Road, Goole. Mr. Garrett who was 55 years old, had been ill for only a week, suffering from acute bronchitis. He was a native of Cowick, and came to Goole to serve his apprenticeship as a butcher with the late Mr Anthony Sunderland
About 30 years ago Mr. Garrett opened a shop on his own acount in Manuel Street, and after a few years moved to the present premises in Boothferry Road. He was a member and past president of the Goole Butchers Association.
Mr. Garrett was prominently associated with the Dunhill Road Methodist Chapel. He originally attended the North Street Chapel, but it is for his devotion to the Dunhill Road Chapel that he will be best remembered in Methodist circles. He was chapel steward there, a trustee, and the choirmaster, while he was also a local preacher.
Mr. Garrett was twice married. He leaves a son and three daughters by his first marriage, and a widow, son, and daughter by his second.
1937 Herbert Needham butcher
Number 128 old 88
Greenfield
128 in 1928 was W E Oates
in 1937 was Eccles drapers
Number 130 old 90
J E Dewing, chemist and optician
Carter Street
Number 132
1928 A E Walker, photographer
Mrs Scutt confectioner 1937
Number 134
Miss Hill tobacconist [1937]
Number 136
Donald Cowling hairdresser [ 1937]
Number 138
John Harness greengrocer [ 1937]
Number 144 [ 92]
1897 Kelly’s – No entry identified as No 92
1901 Census – No entry identified as No 92 possibly ?Cantley Lodge
1908 – A. M. ERSKINE
1949 Alexander McConnell Erskine M.D., D.P.H., aged 80, died 21st January 1949 at Duchy House, 9 Queen’s Road, Harrogate.
1956 The death occurred in St. John’s Hospital, Goole, on Friday, after a long illness, of Mrs Dora Stanners Erskine, of 144, Boothferry Road, Goole. She was 73.
[Summary] A daughter of Dr. Robert Blair, she had a long record of public service and an interest in welfare & charitable work.
In the days of the Poor Law she visited homes where children were boarded out. From 1914 for 20 years she was local secretary of the Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families’ Association. In 1934 she became Goole’s 2nd lady magistrate and served until 1953. She declined an M.B.E. in 1951 for work on Goole Women’s and Girls’ Employment Advisory Committee. No family.
Number 146 [94] H and Wm Jackson
No 94 [146]
1897 Jackson, William. Booth Ferry Road
1901 Census – William JACKSON, aged 47, retired builder
Goole Times April 26th 1935
By the death on Good Friday morning of Mr. William Jackson, Goole lost one who was prominently connected with the town in its greatest years of growth and prosperity. Mr. JACKSON passed away at his house, 146, Boothferry Road, after a fairly long period of failing health. He was 81 years old.
[Summary] Self made man. Chairman of Urban Council in 1910 and 1911. Born in the town of humble beginnings. In business in building with his brother Edward. Long connection with public affairs – on old Local Government Board, and also the Board of Guardians for 21 years. “He was prominently involved in the negotations for many of the public services the town still enjoys, the sewerage and electricity schemes being among these.” Member of the Chamber of Commerce and a Commissioner of Income Tax. Life-long connection with Methodism at Carlisle Terrace Chapel. In 1929 celebrated his golden wedding, having married Mary Elizabeth Burrows at Goole Parish Church on August 12th 1879. She was the daughter of the Master and Matron of the Goole Poor Law Institute. List of mourners.
Number 148 [96] Briarfield
1897 Kelly’s – Jackson, Edwd. Briarfield, Booth Ferry Road
1901 Census – Edward Jackson, aged 45, retired builder
Goole Times January 21st 1927
JACKSON.- On Monday, January 17th, 1927, at Goole, Edward, the beloved husband of Helen Maude Jackson, in his 71st year
Mr. E. JACKSON.
A stir was caused in Goole on Monday by the news of the discovery of the body in a ditch near the pulveriser of Mr. Edward JACKSON, of Briarfield, Boothferry Road, Goole. Mr. JACKSON, who had been ill for some time was last seen alive by his wife at four o’clock in the morning. Although his movements were not observed, it is conjectured that he left the house at about five o’clock in the morning.
A widespread search was made during the morning, but the fog hampered those who were looking for him, and it was not until the afternoon that the discovery was made, the body being seen by Mr. Herbert BUTLER, of 30, Weatherill Street, Goole, who at the time was driving a train on the line which passes the pulveriser.
Mr. JACKSON was clad only in his night attire and dressing gown at the time. Three policemen proceeded to the spot and found the body. It is believed that death had taken place several hours prior to the discovery. There was a wound in the throat.
[Summary] 71 years old last September. Prominent in social and municipal life of Goole. Attended the old Wesleyan day school in North Street for a weekly sum. His parents were humble Goole folk and he had to leave school at an early age to earn a living. Apprentice to the building trade as a stonemason. Established a building and contracting business with his elder brother Wm. Jackson. Both retired in 1899 having started in 1874 .Amongst places built were Boothferry Road Schools, Goole Police Station, Alexandra Street Schools, Selby School, Knottingley and Hemsworth Police Stations, an addition and alteration to Pontefract Poor Law Institute, Goole railway subways and the sewer system in Boothferry Road. They owned about 150 houses in Goole. Edward was on the Goole Urban District Council, was a staunch friend of Goole United Methodist Church, a past president of Goole Musical Society, a member of the Board of Guardians and of the Goole School Board, and a member of Goole and Marshland Farmers Club. Twice married he leaves a widow, 3 sons and 8 daughters by his first wife.
The Inquest [Brief summary] First witness, the widow, said she lived at 148 Boothferry Road. Body found in a water drain near the footpath. Drain ran through a close of land known as Brick Field Pond and called Seavy Lane Drain. Son of the deceased found a table knife and a pocket handkerchief on back lawn of house. Blood found in the garden. The wound in the throat was not fatal, death being due to drowning. Verdict:- Deceased drowned himself whilst of unsound mind.
Number 150 GCJ Barnard
1897 Kelly’s – No entry identified as No 98
1908 GDYB – G. M. BARNARD
1911 George Manger Barnard at 150
1936 Mr. G. M. BARNARD. Passing of well-known Goole tradesman.
We regret to record the death, which occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning, of Mr. George M. Barnard, of 150, Boothferry Road, Goole.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barnard, he was born at Skelton, and was brought to Goole at the age of six years. Mr. Barnard, sen., was a sawyer, and he brought his family to Goole because of the increased prospects of employment in the rising port.
[Summary] George worked as a sawyer for the Aire & Calder Navigation, assisting in the construction of Victoria Lock gates. Worked his passage to Canada to farm but ill health made him return. Forty-five years ago he began a coal business. Member of the Goole Board of Guardians and a well-known Methodist. His wife [ Miriam] died a year ago and he leaves one son.
[According to his M.I. the son’s name was George Clifford Jackson BARNARD, died Feb. 26th 1978 aged 73]
Number 152 [100]
1897 Kelly’s – No entry identified as No 100
1908 GDYB – J. H. Wetherall
John Hudson WETHERALL, aged 61, died 25th January 1913 at 152 Boothferry Road
Goole Times January 31st 1913
Death of Capt. John Hudson WETHERALL. Founder of a Goole steamship company.
A native of Knottingley, he leaves a widow, 3 sons [Arthur, John & Harold] & 2 daughters [Margaret & Lizzie]
1928 – Dr. E. E. Cass
2004 – Sterling Business Services [Telephone directory and number 152 on door]
Dunhill Road
1888 Potter Grange estate of Mr W HC Dunhill under construction [cf Dunhill rd]
1892 Boothferry Rd school built
New church in Boothferry road opened 1898
1937 Goole secondary ‘modern’ school opened