Goole was purpose-built as a ‘company town’ by the Aire and Calder Navigation Company. The oldest buildings are easy to date, because the town, docks and canal system were declared open at 11am on the 26th of July, 1826. The Lowther Hotel had been built a couple of years earlier, to accommodate the visiting architects and engineers who were working on the docks (the navvies, of course, lived in a nearby shanty town)…
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