Past Events from August 14, 2023 – April 12 Past Events from August 14, 2023 – April 12

Boothferry Local and Family History Society meeting

The Courtyard Boothferry Road, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Boothferry Local and Family History Society meeting at The Courtyard, Boothferry Road, Goole, East Yorkshire. Society trustee David Scrimgeour will be presenting “Births, Marriages and Deaths on Yorkshire’s Waterways”.

Goole Local History Group Summer Exhibition

Junction Paradise Place, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

COME AND TAKE A JOURNEY THROUGH GOOLE’S RICH PAST. Join us in our workshop at the Junction as we transform the space for an exhibition of photos and memorabilia taking us back in time through Goole’s history. The exhibition includes … Read More

Olicana Historical Society Meeting

The Clarke Foley Centre Cuncliffe Road, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Olicana Historical Society meeting at The Clarke Foley Centre, Cunliffe Road ,Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Society trustee David Scrimgeour will be presenting “Yorkshire’s Watermen”.

Wakefield and District Family History Society

The Outwood Memorial Hall Victoria Street, Outwood, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Wakefield and District Family History Society, The Outwood Memorial Hall, Leeds Road, Outwood, Wakefield. Also available by Zoom.  Yorkshire’s Watermen Society trustee David Scrimgeour will be presenting “Yorkshire’s Watermen”. The transportation of goods across pre motorway Yorkshire relied heavily on … Read More

Batley History Group

Batley Town Hall Market Place, Batley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Presentation: Yorkshire’s Watermen The transportation of goods across pre motorway Yorkshire relied heavily on the watermen, often accompanied by their families, who piloted their well laden keels along the numerous canals and rivers of the county. David Scrimgeour shares his … Read More

Snaith and District Historical Society

West Cowick Institute Little London Lane, West Cowick, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Presentation:  Life and Death on Yorkshire's Waterways Drawing on his extensive research into 19th and early 20th century Yorkshire watermen families, David Scrimgeour will share what he has learned about the BMD facts so important to family historians. Illustrated with … Read More

Goole By Barge Exhibition by Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard

Goole Museum and Gallery Carlisle Street, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

This exhibition of photographs, videos and music, documents the artists' two-day journey from Hull to York, via Goole on the working barge, George Dyson. It is the latest chapter in Rich and Lou’s Open Bridges project (www.openbridgeshull.com).  Goole by Barge documents … Read More

Castleford Library Local and Family History Group

Castleford Library Carlton Street, Castleford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Yorkshire’s Watermen   The transportation of goods across pre motorway Yorkshire relied heavily on the watermen, often accompanied by their families, who piloted their well laden keels along the numerous canals and rivers of the county. Having recently completed a … Read More

Selby and District Family History Group

Selby Town Hall York Street, Selby, North Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Yorkshire’s Watermen   The transportation of goods across pre motorway Yorkshire relied heavily on the watermen, often accompanied by their families, who piloted their well laden keels along the numerous canals and rivers of the county. Having recently completed a … Read More

Canal Boat Stories – Live! With Robbie Cumming

Junction Paradise Place, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

A FUN AND INTERACTIVE EVENING OF CANAL THEMED ESCAPISM WITH VLOGGER, STREAMER, RECORDING ARTIST AND TV PERSONALITY ROBBIE CUMMING. Known all over the North, Midlands and South of England as ‘the Canal man’ – Robbie has 3 music albums and … Read More