Goole Local History Group Summer Exhibition
2025-07-22 08:00 - 2025-08-02 17:00 (Europe/London) | Junction Goole, Paradise Place, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14 5DL, United Kingdom

Goole Hobbies Exhibition
2025-08-09 | The Courtyard, Boothferry Road, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN146AE, United Kingdom

Owston Ferry Heritage Society
2025-10-08 19:00 - 21:00 | Coronation Hall, High Street, Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire, DN9 1RE
Illustrated talk Yorkshire’s Watermen: Illuminating their lives through genealogy.

The Railway and Canal Historical Society (North West Group)
2025-11-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Friends Meeting House, Manchester, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS, 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 new research examining the extant Canal Boat Registers to see what extra insight they offer the family historian, illustrated with real examples from watermen families across the county.

Goole Built: The Story of Goole Shipyard
2026-01-10 - 2026-03-14 | Goole Museum and Gallery, Carlisle Street, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14 5DS, United Kingdom
An exhibition of photographs and memorabilia from Goole’s largest shipyard, Goole Shipbuilding and Repairing Company Ltd.

Goole On Film
2026-01-24 14:30 - 21:00 | Junction Goole, Paradise Place, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14 5DL, United Kingdom
Celebrate 200 years of heritage and history, with this showcase of Goole on film.
Goole Civic Society is showing historic films of Goole at Junction, Goole as its launch event for the town’s bicentenary celebrations.
Sourced from several collections, including the Yorkshire Film Archive and Pathe News collection, the event will showcase a series of films featuring Goole from the 1920s through to the 1980s including The Last Run and Launch of Thuntank V.
It will also include the premiere of two specially-commissioned projects for Goole’s bicentenary year:

A recording of Advance! Goole, the town’s centenary song, performed by The Warblers.
An Aerial History of the Knottingley & Goole Canal.

There will be two showings of the films – the first at 2.30pm and another at 6.30pm. Click on the link provided to purchase tickets from Junction Goole.

Guild of One-Name Studies: From Waterways to Railways 2026
2026-02-21 09:30 - 17:00 | Colonel Dane Memorial Hall, Church Street, Alwalton, Peterborough, PE7 3UU
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.

Goole in 1926 - Celebrating the first 100 years
2026-03-09 19:00 - 21:00 | The Courtyard, Boothferry Road, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN146AE, 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 depression hitting so many of the townspeople hard, a fabulous celebration of the 100th birthday was organised and delivered with admirable enthusiasm as can be seen from the many surviving photographs from that time.

Yorkshire Heritage Summit Exhibition: Barnsley
2026-03-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Barnsley Civic, 46 Eldon Street, Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S70 2JL, United Kingdom
The Yorkshire Society is running the 2026 Yorkshire Heritage Summit Symposium and Exhibition on 25 March 2026 at Barnsley.
The morning session, the Symposium from 10am to 12 noon, includes multiple speakers on topics related to Barnsley and Yorkshire heritage with insightful presentations to educate and inform. Tickets are available from Eventbrite, the website shown below.
YWHS will have a stand at the free afternoon Exhibition which runs from 1pm to 4pm so why not come along and introduce yourself.

Goole 200 - History of Goole in 200 Objects
2026-05-23 - 2026-07-10 | Goole Museum and Gallery, Carlisle Street, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14 5DS, United Kingdom
A collection of objects relating to Goole over its 200 year history.

Reuben Chappell - Master of the Masts
2026-07-16 - 2026-10-25 | Goole Museum and Gallery, Carlisle Street, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14 5DS, United Kingdom
An exhibition of the works of Goole pierhead painter, Reuben Chappell. The extensive collection held at Goole Museum and Gallery is supplemented by loaned works from other collectors in the UK and Europe.

Waterways Heritage Festival and Flotilla of Vessels
2026-07-17 - 2026-07-20 | Goole Marina, Dutch Riverside, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Save this weekend for a gathering of canal boats with entertainment, food and drink, to mark the 200th anniversary of the official opening of the Goole to Knottingley canal and the port and town of Goole. Boat owners are invited to register, using our expression of interest form, to participate in a flotilla of vessels which is planned to process around Goole docks on the afternoon of 18 July, watched by the public and reviewed by a group of VIPs.

Canal Boat Stories - Live! with Robbie Cumming
2026-07-20 19:30 - 22:00 | Junction Goole, Paradise Place, Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, DN14 5DL, United Kingdom
USE THIS LINK TO BOOK YOUR TICKETS ONLINE.

Pontefract and District Family History Society
2026-09-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Central Methodist Church Hall, Tanshelf Drive, Pontefract, West Yorkshire, WF8 1NB, 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 examples peculiar to life on the waterways this is not a presentation for the faint hearted. The happy events of births and marriages are outweighed by the many unnatural deaths associated with what was a very, very hazardous occupation for the watermen and their families.
