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Goole Centenary Celebrations

27th June - 4th July 1926

The Knottingley to Goole Canal, the port and the embryonic town of “New Goole” was opened for business on 20 July 1826. One hundred years later the people of Goole celebrated that very important birthday in a grand manner.

A week long programme of events ran from 28th June to 3rd July, 1926. Two of the major events were the Exhibition, which ran all week, and the Pageant which took place on the Saturday.

Thanks to donations from local historians we are able to show you printed material which has survived since that time.

Goole Centenary Celebrations Full Programme of Services, Concerts and Musical Arrangements

This programme acted as the timetable for the many musical events happening in Goole throughout the Centenary Celebration week, from Sunday 27th June to Sunday 4th July 1926. Details of performers, what they would be playing and/or singing and locations were provided.

Dimensions: H 18.8 cm x W 12.5 cm. 8 pages.

Goole Centenary Pageant Programme

Among the events, on Saturday 3rd July there was a grand pageant, comprising of 67 “tableaux” – staged scenes with actors in costume – supported by three marching bands, which processed from Hook Road through Goole to assemble in West Park.

This Souvenir Programme contains details of those tableaux and explains what they represented.

Dimensions: H 28 cm x W 19.0 cm. 49 pages.

Goole Centenary Exhibition Catalogue

An exhibition of a collection of “Railway Relics and Modern Stock, Ships Models, Prints, Photographs and local Relics” was held at the YMCA, North Street, Goole. It opened on Sunday 28th June and ran all week. There was also an outdoor element to the event which offered visitors the chance to get close up to a range of railway engines and rolling stock in the London and North Eastern Railway Company’s goods yard near the railway station.

Dimensions: H 19.0 cm x W 12.5 cm. 18 pages.

Goole Centenary Inaugural Service

Sunday 27th June saw the first event in what was going to be a week long celebration of Goole’s centenary. The Yorkshire Post reported that the procession to Goole Parish Church included “every phase of the civic, commercial and social life of the town, while the military and naval forces were also represented”. The service was conducted by the Vicar of Goole, Bishop G D Cliff and the sermon was preached by Archdeacon Sandford of Doncaster.

Dimensions: H 20.3 cm x W 13.0 cm. 8 pages.

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We acknowledge that copyright images are being shown for which no explicit permission to publish has been given to this Society. Many of the digital images shown had originally been produced with the knowledge and permission of the now defunct Yorkshire Waterways Museum from original photographs deposited there for public display. Following the closure of that organisation in 2019 and the break up of their collection those original photographs have disappeared and have effectively been lost to the public.

Through an incredible stroke of good fortune digital copies of those images were donated to this Society in 2022 allowing our volunteers to finally achieve the wishes of those photographers and collectors who had made the original donations.

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