Events from June 24, 2023 – February 9, 2024 Events from June 24, 2023 – February 9, 2024

  • Yorkshire Waterways Heritage Workshop – Week 7

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

    After the success of the program delivered in 2024, ten workshops will be taking place at Goole Museum during this summer. Each session, commencing at 10.30am, will last two hours and feature a mixture of free-range discussion plus a look … Read More

  • Yorkshire Waterways Heritage Workshop – Week 8

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

    After the success of the program delivered in 2024, ten workshops will be taking place at Goole Museum during this summer. Each session, commencing at 10.30am, will last two hours and feature a mixture of free-range discussion plus a look … Read More

  • Yorkshire Waterways Heritage Workshop – Week 9

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

    After the success of the program delivered in 2024, ten workshops will be taking place at Goole Museum during this summer. Each session, commencing at 10.30am, will last two hours and feature a mixture of free-range discussion plus a look … Read More

  • Yorkshire Waterways Heritage Workshop – Week 10

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

    After the success of the program delivered in 2024, ten workshops will be taking place at Goole Museum during this summer. Each session, commencing at 10.30am, will last two hours and feature a mixture of free-range discussion plus a look … Read More

  • Owston Ferry Heritage Society

    Coronation Hall High Street, Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire

    Illustrated talk Yorkshire's Watermen: Illuminating their lives through genealogy.

  • The Railway and Canal Historical Society (North West Group)

    Friends Meeting House, Manchester 6 Mount Street, Manchester, 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

  • Guild of One-Name Studies: From Waterways to Railways 2026

    Colonel Dane Memorial Hall Church Street, Alwalton, Peterborough

    From waterways to railways: a journey through Britain's working past. David Scrimgeour will be delivering his presentation: Yorkshire's Watermen: Illuminating their lives through genealogy.  

  • Boothferry Family and Local History Group

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

    Presentation: Goole in 1926 - Celebrating the first 100 years  David Scrimgeour explores what was happening in and around Goole in 1926, the year of the centenary of the opening of the town and docks in 1826. Despite the economic … Read More