Licenced today: grain silos in Goole docks. The brick building peeking out between the silos is a pub, called the Middle House (to differentiate it from two other pubs on the same street, the Top House and the Bottom House, both long gone). At the far end of the bridge on the right is another pub, the Vermuyden Hotel, named after Cornelius Vermuyden, a Dutch engineer, who directed major waterway projects around Goole, the Humber and the fens. Call into either the Middle House or the Vermuyden - both, against all odds, still trading - to find photos of Old Goole on the walls, which show that this area was once a bustling neighbourhood, full of shops, pubs, cobbled streets of terraced houses... and sailors on shore leave, looking for a good time…
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