What do I remember is ... going with my mates to the Paradise Club in Carlisle street (this was the swinging 60's or as near as Goole got to them). Mr Turner the Grammar School art teacher had painted the mural on the wall. Whit walks. The Cosy Carlton. The Tower Cinema.

My late Aunt - Jean MacBride - was the projectionist at the Carlton cinema. Used to love the Saturday matinee (got in for free)

Hi, Does anyone know of the Adelphi on Hook Rd, i think this was once a cinema

My father (CWE Tomlinson) was born in the dressing room at the Theatre Royal in Adam St as my grandfather worked backstage. He moved to the Coliseum and was stage manager there and later became projectionist. There is a copy of my father's early life in Goole lodged in Goole Library.

I remember the Carlisle Street coffee bar but, just in case my dad is reading this, I never actually went in there. (He banned me because he thought it was full of disaffected youth, which of course it was and which is why I spent as much time as possible there.)
... did that eventually turn into the, ahem, Paradise Club? Which of course I also never went to every Friday and Saturday night. I loved it there. To quote Educating Rita: 'Who'd have thought they'd build paradise at the end of our street?'.

I've recently been in touch with one old mate (Roy), who reminded me that the magnificent John Martyn once played at the Goole and District Youth Club and had a lift to the station on Roy's pushbike, guitar and all. Classic eh?

Memories of missing the last minutes of many a film shown at the Cosy Carlton because the last bus left Goole before the end of the film!
Saw Moby Dick at the The Tower cinem which then morphed into Fine Fare at which I washed floors for several years
The Classic cinema(?) near the baths...saw several pictures there with my mate who smoked Black Sobrane fags at the tender age of 12!
Dances at the Swimming Pool during winter

The Monday night dances for teenagers that used to be held on at the old swimming baths (on Pasture Road) in the early sixties, live bands and lots of fun.

Also my mother used to talk about dances and roller skate evenings being held in the Market Hall, presumably in the forties. I've a feeling she also mentioned ice skating in the West Park.

I am an utter ancient so far as entertainment goes - have no TV, cannot understand comedy, nor jokes, nor remember them never mind tell them. I go to no cinema, nor theatre, cannot remember last time I ever did. Never went to dances in my youth or since, hate social events.

Saw films at the Carlton, the Tower and the Cinema Palace. Remember going with my Dad in the 1950s to see The Alamo, The Student Prince and the Vikings, and then several years later with a gang from school to see films like Alfie and Up The Junction when we probably weren't quite old enough for the certificate. The Carlton showed Dr Zhivago as one of its last films before it closed for ever. The manager of the Carlton was Billy King, quite a character, never took off his hat, but always cheerful, who after the show could usually be found with his wife Doris in the back room at The Percy Arms, telling jokes and playing dominoes. One particular joke of his still makes me laugh, but it's not repeatable here. After years of films, he said he thought The Towering Inferno best of all. Strange choice.

I left Goole as a very young boy I dont have much to contribute other than memories of Saturday morning fights at the "flea pit" Carlton cinema. Great times.

There were Big Bands at the old swimming baths hall in Pasture Road once upon a time.

There was also a very thriving Folk Club - I did used to escape there for a couple of hours on a Monday evening, as light relief from child care, when my kids were old enough to manage without me. At the Buffs Club, and run by Eileen Sherburn, whose son Chris is well known entertainer in that style, nationally and internationally - plays accordion and is part of a group that has appeared at Goole's Arts Centre..

I've just noticed the postcard of the Whitsun Procession, I used to go on these with my Sunday School not as long ago as the photo!!! but in the late 40's

Somewhere in the far distant past, perhaps the 50s, a gang used to meet up at the Tower cinema. To get in, one would queue, others would join later. This not well received by our elders and betters.

I never thought of Whit processions as entertainment. Best bit was getting a new outfit for it, from Branson Bowles. Worst, the year when I had to carry and then present a big bouquet to the VIP on the raised stands by the riverbank, end of Marshfield Road, every Sunday School doing the same as each verse of the massed hymn singing went on. The Goole Brass Band accompanying this turnout. When we were young we took all this to be the natural cycle of life. Even in the 60s these events continued and marched through the streets around Hook Road. Folks stood at their doors and gates. Wonder what's come to pass since then. Dread to think how I would view all this now.

And the other Sunday School event was Anniversary services.
Stepped stands erected in chapels for seating the littlest to the big ones. Recitations, readings, singing, for the rest of the congregation. We must have been trained by our teachers for many weeks beforehand. Again, best outfits on show.

When I was growing up = did I ever - you made your own entertainment. This stuff is unreal.

My Mum, Val Harris, was manageress of the Tower when it was a Bingo club until the family moved to Blackpool in 1989. Sad that it's not there anymore, the whole family worked there or helped out from time to time.
My Mum had loads of friends there and was very sorry to leave.

Remember the Carlton - don't remember the films I probably saw though!
Remember the parades - used to go down Hook Road - from where to where!
Remember the services as a scout - had to carry the flag one year - remember it being heavy and having to lower it at last post.
Remember having no TV and going out to find our own entertainment as kids.

Entertainments Old-style - 1940s : War Years and After.
Walks - Lock Hill at Tidetime, to see the ships swinging in the river,
Riverside Cafe when it belonged to Kemps, for ice-creams (or winter teas by fire), Airmyn Crossing to riverbank and home by Westfield Banks, across fields/railway from New Close to Hook via paths/tracks, from Boothferry Road school to home, down dykesides for adventure,
Bike rides - Bluebell Wood at White City, Snowdrop wood at Knedlington, Saltmarshe, Barmby Marsh, and even as far as Sutton-on-Derwent now and then.

Looking at sepia views on an epidiascope? (3d vision) and hearing stories about people and places far away - Egypt, told by the former captain of Farouk's yacht, when he and his wife lived in Alexandria.

Learning from him about astronomy and navigation by the stars (not a good pupil).

Also descriptions of the sinkings, losses and rescues of merchant navy men.

Talking to Irish potato pickers working in R.L. Walker's fields.

Sing-songs around the piano, card-schools for servicemen home on leave (who were often still there next morning), concerts at chapels (wearing crepe paper costumes!), playing on West Park Swings instead of taking siblings to Sunday school, concerts in West Park bandstand sitting on those French style park chairs, boating/paddling pool at West Park, all those old-playtime favourites like whip and top, skipping games, hide and seek (and parents didnt come and find us), word games played in semi-darkness of blackouts, rigging up a play "telephone" line with cocoa tins/string, reading pre-war gardening magazines stored in a top cupboard (not topshelf), and some hefty volumes of shipping under sail, and another set about Britain's main roads (I mean the A.roads that had names like The Great North and Fosse Way), doing competitions set by Uncle Frank in Goole Times, colouring competitions in mother's magazines e.g. Home Chat or some such title, wandering around the shelves of some "pay weekly" library in a little shop in Pasture Road, borrowing books from Goole's Public Library (all green, brown, red covers and only when you were 9 did you get your own ticket), presided over by a formidable male librarian, with silence in the Reading Room holding newspapers on wooden binders - Lloyds List very popular.

Was Pasture Road "library" run by Mr. Dickinson? That name jumps out from beyond.

Wooden toys for us one wartime Christmas - a doll's pram for my sister I seem to recall - made by Ep Ounsley at his Pasture Road workshop (somewhere near Houseproud is now).

Collecting acorns in Cobbler Wood and "selling" them to a pig-man whose animals lived in a yard at bottom of Avenues. Yes, growing (and digging and weeding and picking) fruit and veg, keeping hens and pigs and putting eggs in Isinglass were our first contact with this "organic" business. We used to go "gleaning" corn for chickens after harvest fields were cropped.

Bread, large loaf, four pence ha'penny, had to be fetched after school some days. Ate crust as I carted it home.

Although not equipped to view video, seen enough to be transported back to those days when gloves and hats were worn, even to shop in the afternoons, in Goole's Boothferry Road, after the morning housework was done. Who would have thought that 40 plus years later anarchic housewives would be exploding in protest about the state of the town now!

I remember the carlton, snogging in the back seats, never seeing the film!
I was Soloman once, all dressed up and fancy on a whit float,1968 I think.Hook Gala and a gala in West park once with scooters doing stunts. I too remember doing the rememberance day parade with the scouts and st georges day too. Hours spent sat in the window seat at the tudor cafe in pasture rd. oh memories..

As a child of the 30's and having lived in Goole during the war years, it must be something to do with the passing of time because even in those dark times the sun always shone.

Branson Bowles, now there was a store, not that I was ever into ladies fashion I hasten to add but my mother and her sisters shopped there and what fascinated me were the Dinky toys placed around the base of the windows,a small boys dream at a time when such toys were no longer available

I remember clearly the fun we had in Goole in the 60's.The Carlton, tower and the cinema picture houses. The Copper Kettle coffee shop on Boothferry Road, and was there not a Wimpy bar on Boothferry Road near where Marks & Spencers used to be? There was also a coffee shop in Pasture Road which I can't remember the name of, but that was a real 'in' place to be ... and oh the great Monday night dances. These where great times. I also remember the bus trips on a Saturday night to Christies in Selby and the odd trip to Scunthorpe, and oh, of course the dances in the Labour Hall down Carlisle Street.....memories!! The place has sure changed now!

Anyone known anything about the Goole Theatre and Skating Rink on Hook Road that was owned by Tom Harniess and managed by John Rose? I would be interested in learning more about these. Tom Harniess was a fairground operator who died in Goole at his residence at 78 Marshfield Road in 1911. Any memories or information about Harniess's would be of great interest.

Ref. Tom Harniess and the amusements at the Phoenix Street warehouse site, I have some knowledge, not researched directly, but gained from work done on this area in general over last decade. Look forward to exchanging information via your email to GAG.

What a shame reading all this bygone age and then realising (after looking around Goole) That in 30 or 40 years time it will be full of tatooed old ladies

Remember having to vote for sunday opening for cinemas

Anthony White's icecream on a Sunday afternoon. He would come round with his handcart and ring the bell. Mum used to send us with a basin to buy 1/- of icecream for tea what a treat.

West Park boating lake. I recall falling in, being pushed more times than I care to remember then facing the wrath of my G/Parents on returning home sodden.

There was also a dyke by the side of the park, that was great fun also the poplar or plain trees, good exercise, if you didn't drop. Happy Days!

Walks along river bank to Hook with my parents in the long hot summers. Exiting at Water Lane to the Blacksmiths Arms pub and sitting in the rear garden drinking lemonade with Smiths crisps on the side. Dad drinking a pint of dark mild beer mum possibly a bottle of oatmeal stout.

last movie I saw at the Cosy Carlton was lawrence of arabia about 1962 film interval sold out of ice lollys.lovely and quiet tho even billy king was lost for words.

Well get yourselves round to the Goole library and identify those sixties teddy boys featured in the Milk Bar.

I did just that these so called teddyboys are local Grammar school kids.Also think info here is wrong Copper kettle closed on the death of the owner Mr Silvester I myself visited this property in the 60s after his death it became the Hong Kong chinese restuarant.As I looked more closely at the photo I have my suspicions its the snack bar on Boothferry Rd presently (I think the heart foundation charity shop) this had a juke box in the back room I think it was greek owned.Finally no self respecting Teddy boy with his drain pipe trousers and tony curtis hairstyle of the 50s would have hung around here.

In the early sixties I used to hang out in the back room of that Greek owned snack bar in Boothferry Road. It was at times decidely seedy, I remember food stuck to the ceiling and some minor sexual misdemeanours! Incidentally, I was a biker not a Teddy Boy.

Only went to the Carlton and not the others as they were closed by then, mid to late 1970s. I saw, A bridge too Far, Grease, a scary film called Grizzly, about a bear wandering around eating people and I remember grabbing my mate's shoulder at a tense scary point in the film, of course he jumped six foot up and sreamed like a girl, [shame on you Paul Curry] - oh what joy! I must have seen other films as well, but I can't remember which ones.

We didnt always pay, as a mate would pay, go into the loos down at the bottom right hand side next to the screen and open the fire doors, then about ten of us would march out of the loos and sit down, sometimes we got kicked out, but not always, [kids will be kids].

I also remember going to discos in the old tin scout hut next to the parish church. The old baths were brilliant, stayed in all day and came out all wrinkled like a prune,we used to stand in the cold showers and then jump in the water, it was so hot then, got some soup out of the machine donstairs and some crisps from the sweet shop across the road, BRILLIANT, also discos in the baths hall, i would love to see some old photos of the baths.

QUITE IRONIC THAT THERE'S TALK OF A CINEMA OPENING IN THE MARKET HALL, WHEN THE OLD CARLTON IS UP FOR SALE, I KNOW WHERE I WOULD SOONER GO

I know where I would prefer to see a movie the proposed area at the rear of the victorian market resembles a dutch barn.

Living out at Fockerby,an evening in Goole was an adventure!I remember the Young Farmers' Balls at the Baths-all of us hot and flushed in Dinner jackets and whatever.The social event of the year,and a mad dash for a bit of supper in the room off the main baths.I always worried that the floor would give way and we would be up to our necks in water...

Does anyone remember the Vermuyden and the Cornelius players?
My Father was the producer, a lot of my childhood memories are of hanging about in the Modern School hall while the rehearsals took place. I think I was considered too young to watch a production.
Does any one remember the tableau's that were produced to advertise Hook Gala in the early 1970s, particularly the mock execution. Does anyone have a film or photos?

HI, I JUST READ THE COMMENTS BY JOHN WRAITH OF FOCKERBY, AND JUST WONDERED IS YOU HAVE A BROTHER OR COUSIN BY THE NAME OF DEREK, AS I USED TO KNOW HIM IN THE LATE 1960 s

I do have a cousin called Derek,who is married,I believe,living in Portington,near Howden. His wife is Mary Holmes.You could always look him up-give him a surprise!I have lived abroad for many years so don't see him now.

HI, JOHN, THANKS FOR THE REPLY, I LIVE IN TAUNTON IN SOMERSET NOW, AND HE WOULD NOT REMEMBER ME ANYWAY, I WENT OUT WITH HIM FOR ABOUT 12 MONTHS IN 1967 ISH SO MAYBE A SURPRISE VISIT WOULD NOT GO DOWN VERY WELL? I WAS LYNDA FLOWER THEN, HAVE STILL GOT LOTS OF RELATION IN GOOLE, SO DO VISIT AT TIMES, CHANGED A LOT SINCE I LEFT THERE IN 1971, I CAN REMEMBER GOING TO THE MONDAY NIGHT DANCES AT BATH HALL, SOMETHING I LOOKED FORWARD TO, AS THERE WAS NEVER A GREAT DEAL TO DO ANYWAY, SO WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK, (HOW SAD)

Memories of the Carlton Cinema in the 40s/50s the owner Mr Austin but the greatest character was the manager Billy King, who kept all the kids entertained at the tanner rush (Saturday afernoon pictures) whilst waiting for the main picture to arrive, with sing songs and a free ticket if you were brave enough to get up and sing a solo..I also remember Billy keeping the peace when the film Rock Around the Clock was shown..

Hi. I remember queuing for what seemed like hours with my mother and younger brother to see The Greatest Show On Earth at the Tower Theatre. Basil Falkingham was the proprieter and it was always regarded in those far off days as a special treat.

hi all has any one got any good pics of the fairs that used to come to goole

For Jean Laker-Bodecott
Joe Fletcher had the coffee bar on Pature Road. It was a great hang out for us kids who were not old enough to use pubs.
Also I remember playing football with Mike Bodecott, Keith and Alistair Millar,Freddie Woodall, Alan Smith and Roy Walker.

Does anyone else remember building bonfires for bonfire night on the riverbank? There was great rivalry between kids from around Belgrave Drive and those from Richard Cooper Street, with raids on each other's bonfire. We would also build dens in the reeds along the river from the bales of cut hay.

Hi Richard, yes I remember the bonfires being built on the riverbank and the bonfire (bon'ire) raiding gangs - although in my case it was more talk than action. We built and lit a bonfire on the traingular piece of ground on the corner of Lime Tree Avenue and Queensway, which was only yards away from houses, God knows how we got away with it. But in those days you could ride your motorbike without a crash helmet and there was no speed limit - a different world. Bill

As a youth iused to play doms with Billy King and Doris at the Percy Arms. Whenever you asked what film was on at the Carlton he always replied ' Tom Mix in cement.'

hi, i lived in fifth ave till 1979/80, i went to pasture road school, is it still there?? i also remember the silver jubilee street party in our 'back lane'. what memories!

A very old friend and former work colleague lived in Goole as a schoolboy and he often refers nostagically and with great affection to the town's cinemas, particularly the Tower which he tells me was the biggest and the best. He maintains , however, that the Carlton and Cinema Palace were also very comfortable and pleasant places in which to watch a show.

He does not have a computer and has asked me to enquire on the internet if anyone has access to photos of the Coliseum Theatre (as the Tower was known prior to its being renamed).

Can anyone help?

For that matter, any photos of the town's cinemas and theatres would be appreciated.

Terry C of Newcastle upon Tyne

I played in a group called THE Daybreakers and we often played at the baths hall in the 60s along with Dave Berry, Shane Fenton as he was known then,and a group called A Band of Angels who's singer later sang w ith Manfred Man.I can also remember playing at the Sydney pub which used to be somewhere near where lidl is now, and at the Station pub,and at nearly all the local clubs..Great days.

The posts bring back a few memories, firstly in the fifties at the tanner rush on a Saturday afternoon at the Carlton, there were serials such as Zorro and the Lone Ranger, a few of used to go each weekend and first stop was the shop next door for a packet of Dominoes, tiny little ciggies six to a packet. First question from Billy King was "do you have any cigs on you" we always said no as we were only aged 8 or 9. I remember Billy doing his turn during the interval, selling buscuits and the like.In those days there were very few cars to be seen either being driven or parked and we would go along finding one to look at. On Saturday I ran straight out of Carter St and under a bread delivery van, probably the only vehicle Boothferry Rd saw that day, Billy King told my dad and he hurt more then the van. In the sixties the Dances in the Baths Hall were great and were usually a first fumbling intro to the opposite sex. We used the Greek cafe on Boothferry Rd regularly we called it El Grecko's, dont know if that was its real name, it was a seedy joint but much better than YMCA Etc.

As a small boy my grandfather Joseph Lea used to waltz me round the docks area on Sunday afternoons and I remember him pointing out to me a theatre nearby that had windows at eye level with the pavement where as young boys he and his mates, maybe brothers,were able to see into the dressing room area and see the artistes getting sorted.This would have been in the1800's when Joe was at Alexander Street school.
David -J

STREET PARTY
Can anyone help in finding out why a street party was held in Edinburgh St & Broadway in 1958. The photo, is on display at the Waterways Museum. They displayed a date of 1953 but I know this is wrong due to family connections. My mum & brother appear on the photo & he was born 1955 & is three years old.After asking around no one, including my mum,can remember why it was held. Does anyone know what would they be celebrating?.

There were a lot of official celebrations in Goole in 1958 as this was the 25th anniversary of the town's charter of incorporation (in 1933).

Coincidentally, Goole Museum are currently preparing an exhibition about the Charter Celebrations. They may have further information / resources.

Thank you Stuart, I will keep a look out for the exhibition being advertised.
Patricia Spink

my mum was usher at carlton cinema too i used to go in free too and sing on a saturday matinee for a zoom lolly also no ones mentioned market hall wrestling with clondyke bill and big daddy etc and cofffe bar was near discoteq and shaws pastimes spent many a day in there shaws have premises in hull now amusement arcades they still in the buisness and the shop at west park was good too

I remember Saturday mornings at the cinema opposite the end of Carter Street (but can't remember which one it was), and watching Dan Dare and other stuff that scared the crap out of me. Who DID I go with? Peter probably, but the rest were too young I'm sure.

"We come along on Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a simle...." was that there, or the Odean in Burnley after we moved in 1959 (we were doing missionary work.........)

Other entertainment....

I'm ashamed to say we used to regard the sweet shop on Pasture Road as a natural (free) feeding ground on the way home from school. The one close to the British Legion. The other one (opposite the baths) was where some lunatic ran over me (with their bike, no less) when I was sent out for my mum's illicit salted peanuts one night....

We used to raid the trucks on the railway sidings at the end of 4th Avenue (not street as in one of my other posts, thanks sis!) and make lanterns.....

We used to traipse all over the docks, especially towards Old Goole where the sulphur dumps were (West side I guess).

Remember the Whit parades, and my dad taking me out in my grandad's new car and doing 100 on the road down towards Rawcliffe. I also remember what my mum said about it :-)

Visiting Howden Minster (my gran worked out there on the R101 in earlier days).

Seeing the ship run up on the river bank after being holed, alongside the cemetery.......

I also remember often, very often it seemed, visiting Shorts to see the Guinness being bottled. We got a brand new Austin van (in Cowell's colors) and the drivers used to sneak me out with them. (Thanks George Bear!). To this day I don't know if my dad/grandad knew that was going on.

Does any one remember the george senior band that played at the british rail club sometime in the 60s

Happy memories of Walt Shorts lemonade factory.I guess I must
be a wee bit older than Graham when I was a nipper Walts shire horses were delivering.The stables at the bottom of 1st Ave (now a kids play school) The whole area including tsb bank was fenced in called Shorts Field and yes horses grazed here.
Cowells factory in Carter St made all the splits (small bottles of pop)including bottling vinegar.I am led to believe a famous soft drink was born here called VIMTO still available all over the world
but dunno about Goole tho never seen it in Tesco. Walter Short was also the supplier for Smiths potato crisps paper bags with a
seperate blue twist bag of salt inside Yummy.
I must search thro my old photos im sure I have the whit parade
with shorts horse drawn delivery cart complete withh oak casks onboard. Happy memories.

Anyone remember seeing the Bay City Rollers long before they were famous at the Vikings in Goole ?
Saturday nights the cops used to have a raid on the Vikings for under age drinking. I got collared and asked was I 18 ? I said no and was chucked in a van along with a load more and taken to the Police station in Goole. The seargent booking us in asked if I was 18 I said no, well how old are you then ? 19 I said well what are you doing here ? I don't know this copper asked me if I was 18 and I said no so he put me in the van !! Sharp exit from that establishment, but cut a bit off my walk to Swinefleet.

bay city rollers I remember the beatles crashing their car on rawcliffe road returning from hull.George Harrison was the driver he later returned to goole magistrates court found guilty of driving without due care.six months later he would have been mobbed outside the court by screaming girls

The street parties in Edinburgh Street and many other streets were to celebrate the Queen's Coronation in June, 1953.
Nearly every one of my age learned to swim at the baths on Pasture road and it was an important part of our recreation. We went there too from the Grammar school every week in the summer term. We also cycled, taking picnics with us,some times even as far as York. We walked after Sunday school, either along the river bank and round by The Fever Hospital, down Pasture road and home or the same loop in the opposite direction.
My grandfather, Richard Jolley, as mayor, recognised that Goole needed jobs to be created, as the ship yard and ship building declined. He was responsible for getting what was then a light industrial estate underway, including of course Burton's tailoring.
Grandpa was also instrumental in finding entertainment for teenagers. He brought roller skating to the market hall, operated twice a week by people from Doncaster,I think. That was around 1951.
Looking back we seem to have been fortunate in having the local facilities and locations, as well as the time and freedom to explore on bikes and on foot. With warm regards from sunny Adelaide, South Australia

The era of the big bands that came to Goole baths is now only a memory locked in the minds of those privilaged to have been there and seen it. I wonder if many people realise that their appearance was due to Les Ellin and co of the Goole Wheelers. Who located an impressario to supply this great source of entertainment. Bands like, Ken Colyer,Sid Phillips, Ken Mackintosh,Alex Welsh,Ronnie Scott, Johnny Dankworth, The Kirchin Mambo band and Freddie Randall to name a few. Not forgetting the Tramps Ball, another great success story.

I remember my gran going to Pasture Road baths to watch wrestling on a sat. afternoon.There is a family rumour she got into trouble hitting Mick Mcmanus over the head with her shoe as Les Kellett held him thro the ropes !She had to watch on the tv later in life ,but as she had angina I used to panic as she would get really wound up watching our heroes performing.

best butchers Nightingales Jim/old Danny and the boys great pork pies.. dont know what its like now..mrs jacksons across the road, auntie Anne's for best Jubiles in town... sliding down the river back in winter on bread try, nicking the dafs in spring for mothers day, what fun, swiming in the Canal in summer great, buy YUK now...doing stuff you should not was always good at the time, cider in west park oy oy...

best cafe in the 60's for those who could not take the hard stuff yet, was the riverside cafe, (the greeks ), fantastic backroom, jukebox thick with smoke, loud music, fab..
or the arcade cafe, oxo, for a tanner, copper kettel, all great spots..but hey if ya wanted a drink Dock tavern half bitter, in the blue room, me and colin walker spent many happy times.
till his mum/dad found out..whoops..all of you who read these pages, Goole was great but now looks very sad.. drugs, gangs etc etc..blooody shame... but still some great pubs, but sadly no characters these days, remeber old Pom 1700 sat selleing the Green "Un", old ted sunday morning with sunday papers..

i think you lost a little bit of your memory stan lol..your post of a couple of years ago..the tower picture house did not morph into fine fare..it burnt down lol...it was the old cinema that morphed into the fine fare, that would be around 1962, i rememer it closing and getting a load of films on reels and looking at them after school with mally smith.

your right it was called THE CRITERION, then became FINE FARE, Gooles first big supermarket,bigger the the co-op

Wasn't it called the Cinema Palace?

nah, sure it was the criterion, i can remember playing and going inside with my mate when they were knocking it down.
but hey time is a funny thing...

Postcard top right of this page (click to enlarge) clearly says Cinema Palace, or are we referring to different cinemas?

yep your right, but hey was a good few many many many years ago..

Remember Goole being better known as 'Sleepy Hollow' in the early 80's CB radio's AM.frequency.
Fantastic times, met all sorts of folk, good and bad! Rythemstick, Canteen cowboy, Moonraker, Penquin, Bullwinkle,Pandora,Catweasel to recall a few.Meetings at Kilpin country club. Boothferry Breakers Wow!! any of you still got the old AM squark box in the loft to remember the era by ? 10 10 till we do it again !were down were gone.

i can remeber going to the carlton on saturdays to the matinees also i remember shorts wine shop on pasture road which became littlewoods soft drinks i used to work there when i left school as a drivers mate , i also remember the palace cinema which was pulled down and turned into fine fare supermarket ,i also remember working at the savemore supermarket at the top of pasture road .
our family lived down brough street in the 50s early 60s then moverd to murham ave .
anyone out there who knows me please get in touch it would be nice to talk over old times thanks

with reference to street partys .
i remember going to our street party it was held in the sea cadets hut behind the british legion i would of been about five years old sitting there with my sisters having jelly and custard and all the grown ups crowding around our table .
i have the original photo of us all at the table if anyone is interested ??? i can just about name everyone who is in the photo who lived down brough street and mond avenue.
please let me know asap
thankyou.

bay city rollers could not have played the vikes, they were a manufactured band and like the monkeys couldent play. there was a raid in 73 the band was mud

Re Bay City Rollers
Sorry Ian you are wrong about the BC Rollers. They were definately not a manufactured band as you suggest. I first saw them in 70 performing in a club in Edinburgh. Although raw young lads they were good then. In 71 they had a #9 uk hit with 'keep on dancing' which wasn't bad for their first attempt. In 73 the lead singer Nobby Clark left and that was when Les Mckeown joined the band. During 73 they played the Vikings three times in quick succession. Somewhere I have a beer mat signed by Stuart Wood, Eric Faulkner and Les Mceown which I got when they came to the bar after one of their sessions. Then in 74 they had the #1 hit with 'Remember'. The rest is history so to speak.
You did recall Mud playing there which I also saw and good they were too. Many good bands had the Vikings on their CV. We had lots of memorable Saturday nights at the Vikings travelling from Sheffield in a Hillman Imp. I remember the Hull Brewery ale was a bit slape though.

i remember visiting carlton in 77 or 78 there was lovely lad there called martin they had a farm and shop in the village he drove the tractor for fate he will be late 40s any one know if he still lives there they was also a funfair any one remember i was visiting ann thompson x

No-one has mentioned the dances held at the Territorial Army Hall (Drill Hall) behind the Catholic Church in Pasture road. I think it was the early sixties. The commitee of Goole R.A.F.A. ran it , and as my mum and dad were committee members I got in free if I helped in the cloakroom. There was always a "live band" so lots of young lads with ambitions to be famous , played for not much money . Unfortunately I don't remember anyone who actually did become famous! But it was a good excuse for me to wear my full skirt with layers and layers of "can can" net under it . It had to be stiffened with sugar water when it was washed. Who remembers that i wonder?

....came accross this amazing site almost by accident, love the stories, but " Broadway" mentioned 'TED' selling Sunday papers, ...my Grandad used to stand outside the Subway,24/7 selling the local papers, Fred Potter, he never missed, he lived in the Railway house on the opposite side of the road ( I believe an Indian Restaurant is there now. Anyone on here old enough to remember this sweet gentle man ?

I remember all the cinemas around in the 50s and 60s worked at the Carlton with a friend in 1959-60. were not allowed to work when adult films were shown as we were 14-15yrs old. Billy King was a real character banging the front stage and saying no pictures till all ices sold. Went to school with Billy's daughter Susan. Went to all the cafes mentioned plus Ransomes in Aire Street who were strict about behaviour on their premises. Went to Monday nights at Baths Hall also spent most of the summer between West Park and swimming at Baths hall. Still see one of the female attendants (shopping in Tescos) when i visit Goole.

sadly the cosy carlton is no more, it has been flattened this week. the memories came flooding back as i watched the last bits fall. who remembers going to watch the PG tips chimps in the 60s, two packet tops to get in, balloons and badges and billy king.

No where in the previous comments have I found any reference to the dances at the Market Hall. I only went once in 1943 and it was quite good with a good crowd. I wonder if Vera Eldin remembers. She was a good dancer.

Does anyone have knowldge as to the whereabouts of Vera or William ELDIN, who used to live in Marlborough Ave in the 40`s.Would like to get in touch. Thank you.

The question of the Eldins has been solved by Pedro and I thank him for the information.

When asked a question you didn`t want to answer you would say IT WAS ICKY FROM BUBWITH. Any one know how this expression started? I know it was used in the 20`s and 30`s in Goole.

We used "Ickey from Hook"

Hi Geoff, What year Are you talking about? Any idea how it started?

Can anyone remember the boxing in Goole at the market hall or drill hall. My uncle boxed there . He was Eric Kid Lawton.

Does any one remember George Hawksworth mention in shops was the same George Hawksworth that ran the Sea Scouts in the Toc H On victoria Street in the 30`s?

re--amanda lawson
my father in law taggy newton also boxed at the drill hall and market hall with eric lawton so did hector wilbe

The Bay City Rollers certainly DID play the Viking. I compered it. they COULD play, but when they went to their first recording session, producer (jonathan King, pervert who liked young boys) just used two voices and some pro musicians. The drummer (allegedly) couldnt keep time and their kit was all falling to bits.

The Rollers are still gigging - Les McKeon is still in the line up. They played the Adelphi club in Hull last year.

Funnilly enough, the Monkees COULD play. Micky Dolenz was a pretty good self accompanying guitar-vocalist and made a few records on his own, pre the Monkees being formed. Davy Jones made a few records, but is best known for his acting 'career', which included Coronation Street befoe the Monkees. His name however was taken by a singer who had been around longer, but still had no hits with it - David Bowie. (Dunno about Nesmith and Tork).

The only really 'manufactured' band was the Archies (Sugar Sugar).

I mentioned soul music on another part of this thread. One Saturday in 1971 I brought along an American soul band called The Tams. they were in the UK promoting a recently re-released single 'Hey Girl Don't Bother me" and were unable to play the previously arranged gig in Leeds, due to Musicians Union nonsense. Their record company (Probe, part of EMI) asked me if they could come out with me. The guys enjoyed the Viking too, signed a few autographs, but most people were not interested in them though. About 3 weeks later "Hey Girl" crashjed into the charts at Number 1. The Goole girls missed out on that one!

Re Paul Rusling
Hi Paul many thanks for the Rollers info, I knew someone would confirm those great nights at some stage.
The Vikings was a good venue in those days and as you quite rightly say sometimes you just didn't know who you were watching until it was too late.
Thanks for the memory.

THE YORKSHIRE SKIFFLE CHAMPIONSHIP

Does anyone remember the Yorkshire Skiffle Championship being held at the Baths Hall in 1957 or 1958. It was won by our local group who called themselves "The Satellites". There were six members:- John Hughes; Ken Ibbotson; Les Krebbs; Pete Morton; Roy Thompson; and "Mo" Le Voguer. A great night was had by all.
They made a record, "Mama Don't Allow", (I think), and photographs were taken. My request is to have a copy of any photograph taken that night, no matter what condition. I so hope someone may find one in an old shoebox or something. Hope I stirred up some good memories and I get an email soon.

'Or was it "When the Saints go Marching in"?

Any one remmber the Northh Eastern Folk &Blues Club Iwas there when I was about 14 or 15

I remember the Blue Water evenings at the North Eastern. Where the Marriners sang Songs of the sea. It was on the wireless. This was in the 1920`s

how can anybody have a great night watching the bay city rollers, must have been very VERY painful, arrrrgggg...

Broadway, mate, I'm guessin' your either too young to know or you wasn't there at the time but either way believe me the nights were great at the Vikings, Bay City Rollers and all. Remember also, It wasn't all about good music and slape ale you know ? Don't knock it till you've tried it !!

spot on John Mac, to YOUNG and thank god wasn't there.. i like Music!!, Lol...

Hi Broadway, you like music ? During the 60's and 70's we went all over the place to watch real live bands, Rod Stewart and the Faces with Ronnie Wood and Ronnie Lane incl. The Who at Hull City Hall with Keith Moon on the drums, unforgettable stuff, travelled all over the uk following the Quo.. fantastic just to see John Coglan hitting those drums! Two nights kipping in a mini with three others at Buxton pop festival,watching Mott the Hoople, Strider,Faces etc etc Awesome times. Humble Pie with Stevie Marriott Peter Frampton, Clem Clements at Buxton and Sheffield City Hall total ledgends. Slade,T Rex, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Hendrix .. Genius. to name but a few that I saw. You enjoy the music you like it is all good stuff no matter what era it is from.

spot on !00%, i'm a stones, thin liz, fab four, jimmy hendricks
quo, doors, soul 60's, sinatra, dean martin etc etc ..so very very wide taste, but rollers aggggggggggggggggrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr,

Re:- Posting by Anne Jones(Catterall) 14/04/2010
The Yorkshire Skiffle Championship 1957

I spoke to Ken Ibbotson recently and showed him a copy of your posting, he remembers it well. I have photocopies of two of his pics from the days of the band. You are quite welcome to have them.

Webmaster: please forward my e-mail address to Anne.

The late sixties was certainly a time.... Scooter boys of Goole and Howden...Goole and District Youth Club (at the Grammar), Y.M, Parish youth club, Carlisle Caff. Hey, what about the Paradise Club? Tamla Motown...Otis Redding...Marvin Gaye,the Mayphil Caff just over Boothferry Bridge....

Anyone have any memories of those golden days?

Like Ronnie Lane, late of the Faces sang, "I wish, that, I knew what I know now, when I was younger..."

Sing, if you know the words...

Ooh la la, ooh la la yeah, yeah...

Re Small Faces
Ronnie Lane what a fantastic talent, so sad he has now passed on. Still have a tamborine he chucked into the crowd Xmas eve at Leeds city hall. Ooh la la la yea. brings back good memories.

For John Mac. Fantastic reply. Can't beat that story. Not yet anyway...

I'm sure you will have already clocked the Slim Chance videos on You tube. If not, please do...

Did have the very recent pleasure of seeing Rod Stewart at a local concert venue. I was not far from the front and would love to have snagged one of the footballs he kicked into the crowd. What a marvelous gig .

Every picture tells a story, don't it?

ReSmall face, Rods still one of the best rockers around and certainly gives good value for money.
Ronnie wood is another brilliant talent and rumour has it they are going to do a gig together sometime which would be ace. Have you read Ronnies Autobiography, "Yer fathers yatch" it is very good. That rift in Stay with me also takes some beating in my book. I feel privileged to have seen them a good few times and still spin the original vinyl when I need a lift which never fails.
Still a nods as good as awink to a blind horse !! especially if it lives on miss Judys farm ! see ya

Mac. A couple of years ago I bought a DVD, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Live at Knebworth Fayre. I thought well this'll be cool, I never knew they did Knebworth...

I put it on and they played in daylight. I recognised the deflated (as yet ) big-lips setting for the Stones to perform on that same night. Bloody hell I went to that concert and I couldn't remember seeing Skynyrd.

Incidentally, it was 1976, that red-hot summer of drought. Without doubt, that Stones gig was the best I have ever seen in my life and I've seen some good 'uns. Zeppelin, Bowie, Neil Young, the Who, Dylan (twice) etc. etc.

Never a dull moment reading yer stuff. Groan...

Keep on rockin' in the free world...

Small Face, Just thinking back with you seeing Bowie
When we were young at heart and just found the taste for beer at the Ship inn at Swinefleet there was a local farm lad called Keith and he'd stand at the bar drinking a fair number of pints then suddenly shout wowie it's Bowie, we all thought he was sloshed until one night he said he was off to Wembly to see Bowie and would be back stage for the party etc, yea yea we thought. Few days later he turns up with the photo's.
It turns out that Keith he used to be Mick Ronsons boss (God bless him) when he was a gardener in Hull. Micks dad asked keith if Mick would ever make a gardener or should he go down the guitar route, Keith told him straight and the rest was history. We took him serious after that boozed up or not.
Keep rockin all over the world.

Mac. Great story. You never know who's standing at the bar.

I'm sure some of us have heard how Bowie and Ronno got off the Hull train at Goole and walked around on the platform? Urban legend or not, I wonder?

Just raked out the old Bowie ticket. Sound and Vision tour Sunday August 5th. 1990 Milton Keynes Bowl. Price £20.

Next one for me, I've scored prime seats for Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music in February. Another one off my "to see" list...

I hope we ain't boring all the other readers mate...

Who would I like to see? Pearl Jam...

Mac.I forgot to say and just to keep it connected to this local page...

I went to see a band called Geordie at the Vikings in the seventies. I stood too close to the speakers, which if I remember rightly, had the name Mungo Jerry stamped on 'em. They were so loud that my ears were ringing for days after!

The lead singer was Brian Johnson who is now front man for AC/DC...

Small Face! re the Bowie urban legend, I'm sure the Spiders never touched down at Goole station or anywhere else nearby, tho' Ronno and Trev Bolder were both Hull lads and Mick Woodmansey was from Driffield. But feathered cuts and bog brush tops were the in thing then, and Ronno's look (as seen on the inner sleeve of the Ziggy Stardust album) was copied by a lot of lads round here.

But the band did come to Doncaster's Top Rank, on the tour that fired them to stardom back on Wed. 27th June 1973. For most of us in dull grey northern towns it was like the second coming, more exciting and memorable than even the moon landing of the previous year. Not bad for £1.20p.

Donny Top Rank pulled in a lot of big name bands around then, while in Goole the Vikings was about the only place for live music. But at that time the 'Vikes' was a sort of Phoenix Nights club for bands like the Tremeloes, Detroit Spinners and the Glitter Band, whose star had faded and were on the way down before hitting the scampi and chips circuit, where they'd play their hits of yesteryear to mums and dads, suited, booted and coiffed in their Saturday night best.

So no, Goolies were offered little in the way of live music in the early to mid 70s, and what there was, was mostly DIY.

Best live band i ever saw in Goole was on a sunday morning round the clock,

the sally army band, now come on boys all together now Onward blah blah blah..de de dar,

think the rollers were the opening act,

Lol,

....and there you have it....

Further to old codger's comments about Walt Short. I recently found a bottle in mint condition with the cork still in and 'Cowell's Goole' on it - so thanks for helping me find out a bit more about it!

For Colin Hunt
Hello Colin, I only just found your reply to my request for pictures of the Yorkshire Skiffle Championship, but I don't know how to get in touch with you. I would like to take you up on your kind offer. It's good that you have contact with Ken, perhaps I can help put him in touch with other group members. If I manage to get your email address I can pass on the details for him.
Thankyou, hope to hear something soon. Anne

Anne, I don't know if you see the Goole Times but Mike Marsh wrote an article that featured the Skiffle group and it was in the paper. The photo's are the ones that I have photocopies of.