Moons waxed and waned, the lilacs bloomed and died, In the broad river ebbed and flowed the tide Ships went to sea and ships came home from sea And the slow years sailed by and ceased to be. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
WITHIN HIS REACH
The photos of Charlie Hill of Swinefleet
The riverside village of Swinefleet lies towards the southern end of Swinefleet Reach, the last long reach of the River Ouse before the sharp turn through Goole Bight and the final run up to the entrance locks of Goole. Charlie has been photographing the ships passing by his backdoor since the late 1940's, and his albums offer a wonderful record of the variety and development of shipping in the Ouse over more than a half-century. Charlie is still out-and-about on the riverbank and at Goole and the Humber Ports, adding today's ships to those of yesterday and yesteryear.
SHIPOWNERS OF GOOLE
Photos mainly from Charlie's albums.
Photos not available but welcome for vessels marked *
PART ONE - THE RAILWAY STEAMERS
Railway companies and their predecessors
HUMBER STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY
(taken over by Goole S.S. Company in 1895)
NORMA 1877 * (amended 23/2)
YORKSHIRE COAL AND STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY (A. Meek & Sons)
(taken over by Goole S.S. Company in 1895)
ALTONA 1877 (later RIVER CRAKE)
3/2
GOOLE STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY
(taken over by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company in 1/1905)
(amended 6/7)WYNYARD 1870 (later JOHN BLADWORTH) *
(amended 23/2) (extra photo 17/1)
Advert from 'Provinciale Groninger Courant' of 15 October 1896 (supplied by Leo Johannes)
Sailings every Wednesday and Saturday between Harlingen and Goole in both directions
CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY, MANCHESTER
(their Goole-based fleet was taken over by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Company in 4/1906)
(amended 4/5)
'LANKY' STEAMERS IN RAILWAY DOCK, GOOLE, 1907
LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY
(merged with the London & North-Western Railway Company in 1922
and thence to the London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company in 1923)
(extra photo 17/1)RYE 1914 *
LONDON, MIDLAND & SCOTTISH RAILWAY COMPANY
ASSOCIATED HUMBER LINES
(near sisters DARLINGTON, HARROGATE and SELBY were Hull-Registered)
BRITISH TRANSPORT COMMISSION - BRITISH RAILWAYS BOARD
.... to be continued