The Yorkshire Waterways Museum

Dutch River Side, Goole, East Yorkshire DN14 5TB

Tel: 01405 768730

website: www.waterwaysmuseum.org.uk

The Yorkshire Waterways Museum offers an extensive collection which tells the story of the Port of Goole, the transportation of coal, the lives of barge families, and the boat building tradition of our ancestors. The economic and social purpose of the museum it to be an attraction and archive for visitors and to offer friendship, dignity and training to disadvantaged people to enable them to gain the skills and confidence to be economically and socially active. The emphasis is on team-work organised to meet the expectations of visitors.

Registered in 1995 and extended in 2001. The Yorkshire Waterways Museum celebrates the social and economic history of the canal port of Goole and its associated compartment boats and hoists, and present day links with the Humber, Europe and the Yorkshire river and canal network. More than 7000 documents, photographs and artefacts comprise a ollection and archive whose largest object is the working Tom Pudding tug Wheldale.

The museum plans to improve the heritage value of the existing collection by conserving and interpreting large objects which have not yet been part of the current public displays.