The Sites and Monuments Records for Goole

One of the annoyances of being a local history researcher in Goole is that several boundary changes and 'clear outs' have resulted in the town's archives being scattered over a number of different archives. As a result Goole documents and records can be found in Goole Library and Museum, Yorkshire Waterways Museums, and archives and museums based in Beverley, Doncaster, Hull, London and Wakefield, as well as several other locations. Other records can be considered lost, and a fire in the Town's local board offices in 1891, means that little survives before this date anyway. 

In terms of Heritage the standard reference point for informing planning application decisions is to refer to the Heritage Environment Records (HERs). However, if you search for these records on-line, using the Heritage Gateway, you will find that the East Riding of Yorkshire Council Records (being Goole's local authority) are not available on-line. Goole's HERs, still referred to as Sites and Monuments Records (SMRs), are located at the Humber Archaeology Partnership offices, based in Hull. Unfortunately the records are not available online, but are available here:

(Index - DOE - Department of Environment; NBR - National Building Record - records start with a Number 9.)

No. (National Buidling)	Building	Date	Pictures	Extant
15935	No.19 Warehouse	6.93		No
92133 (NBR)	Warehouse and Transit Shed, Railway Dock, Bridge Street	6.93	2	No
15930	Stores/Offices (Tanet), next to Bridge Street Aire and Calder Office.  (NBR – 92127)	6.93	1	No
15931	Bothy Store and toilet block (1909-1910) (NBR92129102) and Generator (House) – 1930-50). South Dock	6.93		Yes
15932	South Dock Hoist. Grade II. Accumulator tower. NBR92130.	6.93	Y	Yes
15933	Dry Dock, South Dock. Grade II. NBR 92131		Y	Yes
15934	Barge Dock, No.1 Shed NBR 92134	6.93	Y	No
15936	Railway Water Tower. NBR – 92134. West Dock South – SE7401 2320? Water Tank.	6.93	Y	No
15937	Railway workshop, railway sidings South West Dock c.1860-1880. NBR. 92135			No
15929	Crane, Railway Dock. Cowans Sheldon and Co. Ltd. NBR – 92126		Y	?
15928	Transit Shed, Stanhope Dock, c.1870-1890. NBR – 92118		Y	No
15927	Lancashire and Yorkshire Railways Railway Offices, Stanhope Street. NBR. 92122		Y	Yes
15926	Transit Shed, Aldam Dock North Side NBR. 92120. C. 1880-1890		Y	No
15925	Offices Bond Island. NBR – 92118		Y	Yes
15924	Transit Shed, Aldam Dock, Aire Street, NBR. 92118		Y	No
15923	Bothy, store and toilet. NBR – 8737 1/02			No
6396	Swing Bridge, Goole J. Hatcher ‘Industrial Architecture of Yorkshire (1985).		Y	No
6937	Terrace R, Adam Street c. 1830. Possibly demolished. See also 10523, 10524	1988	Y	No
6938	Boat Hoist Aldam Dock. Hatcher 1086. Waterways World October (1983), 150 Years Port of Goole, British Waterways Board. DOE record – 15.9.87. Also details of a Goole article and a chronicle article 15.5.86 ‘Coal Hoist will be preserved’ as there are preservation orders on the two hoists. Also newspaper article showing picture of demolition. 87371/01. Grade II*		Y	No
6992	Bank Chambers, Stanhope Street. Pevsner	86		Yes
6993	Water Tower, Pevsner and DOE description. HBR	6/93		Yes
6994	25-41 Aire Street, Pevsner			Yes
6995	St Johns Church. Pevsner and DOE			Yes
6998	Boat Hoist, South Dock. DOE decription.  Chronical – 15.5.86 and GT 18.5.86 DOE letters – notes Enid Thompson detailing hoist. Notes for building to look at. British Waterways Board want museum, ABP don’t.	1987	Y	No
10523	DOE description 2 Adam Street			Yes
10524	Theatre Royal – DOE description. Useful photo.	1987	P	Yes
10525	No. 11 Aire Street - DOE description. Useful photo.	1987	P	Yes
10526	MacIntosh and Adjacent property - DOE description. Useful photo.	1987	P	Yes
10527	3-9 Aire Street (Royal) - DOE description. Useful photo.	1987	P	Yes
10528	Lowther DOE report. All modern photographs.			Yes
10527 (?)	Victoria and Ouse Lock – DOE report. Clarke, M (1999) Mile Post Reseach			Yes
10530	Dry Dock. DOE		Y	Yes
10531	Goole Grammar DOE		Y	Yes
10532	Windmill Tower 145 Boothferry Road. DOE and 2007 plans.			Yes
10533 (?)	Hydraulic Accumulator Tower – South Dock basin. DOE and LB photograph 1987. In 1993 the structure was demolished. Keith Miller reports having an accumulator town spot listed on commencement of demolition, but destruction was completed on the ground that the remains were a ‘dangerous structure’ 8/93. The pictues show the Stanhope Dock Hoist in the progress of demolition. This means that the record is actually 10544. Singer, C History of Technology.	1987	Y	Yes (South Dock)
10534	South Dock Bridge, Goole. DOE. Clarke, Mike – Historical Audit, Mile Post Research, July 1999, undertaken for ABP. Reference to ABP plan stores.			No
10535	Coal Waggon Hoist – DOE, HBR 92121. Plans – DC/04/03102/PLB/WESTWW (PA/CONS/10759). Letter.			Yes
10536	DOE Bridge Farmhouse			Yes
10537	DOE Bridge Farmhouse			Yes
10538	DOE Bridge Farmhouse			Yes
10539	DOE Bridge Farmhouse			Yes
10540	DOE Bridge Farmhouse			Yes
10541	DOE Bridge Farmhouse			Yes
10542	Lock Up, DOE		Y	Yes
10543	Railway Swing Bridge. DOE P, A p after been hit. Clarke, M report on Bridges, report 2003. Dutch River Swing Bridge (Mile Post Research) Britain’s Historic Railway Bridges, Biddle G (2003), Gazzetter		Y	Yes
10544	Hydraulic Accumulator Tower. Doe. Confused with South Dock.			No
10545	Sluice/Road Bridge. DOE		Y	Yes
6397	Brick Water Tower DOE. NBR – 92124		Y	Yes
6398	Goole Hall, Pevnser and DOE.  Internal pictures.		Y	Yes
8821	Railway moved to North Lincolnshire.
9600	Ref: Archaeology of Industrial Revolution. B Bracegirdle, 1973. Porteous.
7234	Reference to Old Goole – Lock Hill picture.		Y	No
1319	Goole Fields SE7415 2200 – Silver Penny of Henry IV? (Yorkshire Mint 1412-13) discovered in 1947. YAS. SF741 220 – Silver penny of Henry VII 1974. Doncaster Museum Record.			?
20291	First Goole Swing Bridge report. (new)			No
20292	Dutch River Swing Bridge. Reference to M Clarke (2003) Historical Audit. Reference to pictures and description. Extant 25.10.2005.			No
20293	New Bridge Inn – Extant 21.07.2005			No
20622	New Potter Grange. Extant 21.08.2008. Yorkshire possibly 17.11.2006. BBC News 2008 Historic House wrecked by arson.			No
9490	Dutch River Picture and article by PL Smith		Y	Yes
9486	Aire and Calder Navigation			Yes
14450	Goole Cemetery – shown on map. Ref to 11711 pumping mill Goole Cemetery (copied the article)			Yes
14471	Mortuary Chapel  Goole Cemetery	91		Yes
14472	Mortuary Chapel  Goole Cemetery	91		Yes
14473	Lodge, Goole Cemetery.			Yes

The records compose of two main archives. The first is the Department of Environment's (pre-predecessor to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport for managing Listed Buildings)  survey for Listed Buildings undertaken in the late 1980s and the second, the National Buildings Record survey undertaken in the early 1990s. The time of the surveys was a transition period for Goole with a number of Victorian structures still surviving on Goole Docks, which were recorded as part of the surveys. It was a period of 'cat and mouse', as soon as an interest was taken in a building steps would be taken to demolish it by the Port Authorities. A number of these structures were Listed at the time, but several were later demolished. Sadly a larger number of the buildings recorded as part of the National Buildings Record were not Listed and have now been demolished. The SMR records still record a large number of buildings surviving in Goole and many have pictures, which can be used as an informative record of unauthorised works to Listed buildings.