Plan of the Town and Port of Goole, 1853

This plan, attributed to a T W Bartholomew, was clearly a working document as it appears to have  been annotated using coloured inks to highlight features which did not appear on the original map. We think it must have been used by the Aire and Calder Navigation Engineering Department to visualise changes in the port layout but if you have another explanation, please let us know.

The author of the plan initially had us puzzled but it transpires that William Hamond Bartholomew of Tom Pudding fame, had an older brother, Thomas Wood Bartholomew, (1831-1865) who was a civil engineer. Their mother’s maiden name was Wood.

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