Licenced today in the ‘end of month’ rush: the Wetherspoon pub - the City and Country - in Goole. This roundabout, topped with a clock-tower, is where six roads meet. Goole was a planned town, built on a grid system, though a lot of the more interesting buildings have either been demolished or repurposed (the pub used to be a bank). Goole has an interesting past and, no doubt, a prosperous future, because of the new industrial zone being built between the town and the motorway. Today, though, it’s just another defeated northern town with a hollowed-out high street…
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