Another month has passed and we are still in partial lockdown - but life still seems to be returning to a normal - we can shop, albeit with a mask on, we can go for a meal with a limited number of friends and invite a select few into the house and I managed a haircut. Most of my friends have now had 2 jabs so we feel safer. And I was not planning a foreign holiday - so steady progress.
The season seems late and this week I have been hearing a cuckoo. According to the old rhyme it should have changed its tune by now and be preparing to fly away home. We are harvesting spring onions and looking forward to rasps and new potatoes although pigeons ate my first sowing of pot turnips. I am going to concentrate on growing things in pots. That way I can control the weeds.
One of the topics I have been looking at recently has been Clarks Buildings in Old Goole. I was contacted by a lady whose grandfather James Smith was born there in 1888. His parents were Joseph Smith and his wife Sarah Jane, nee Goulden.
This was interesting as a good friend is a member of this family and when we looked carefully we found that Sarah Jane was one of the eleven children of James Goulden and his wife Sarah Drury. She was the younger sister of John Henry Goulden, my friend's great grandfather. The Goulden family is a large one and still well represented in the Goole area.
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| Clarks' Buildings are on the right. The Dutch River and the old shipyard is straight ahead. Clarks' Cottages were on the opposite side of the road. |
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| 1891 map showing Clarks Buildings. Also Grove House, Grove Cottages and Clemenst Cottages and The Gables. |
When the shipyard moved to the Old Goole side of the Dutch River these houses remained in front of them but were probably demolished in the 1930s. The furthest three, on the bend, lasted longest and I remember visiting a school friend there whose father Edward Sammon worked at the shipyard.
Here is another view of Clarks Buildings looking from the other direction
Hi Susan,
ReplyDeleteI came upon your blog while researching my Goole family connections, in particular a reference to Clarke's Buildings.
The Goulden family also appears amongst my ancestors but only because a 1st Cousin (Twice removed) Anne Hawksworth (b.1868) married John Henry Goulden, the sister of your previous correspondent's mother Sarah Jane Goulden. (He was 2 years older). They lived at 64, Clarke's Building.
My Grandmother Pearl Hawksworth was born in Goole in 1868, father Frederick (1861-1945), mother Clara Ann Maskill (1870-1906), they lived at 6, Chapel Street.
Should you know anyone who is interested in helping me with more research, I would by very grateful. My email is: geoff.fairless@optusnet.com.au. You will see from the last two letters that I live in Australia, so visiting Goole is a bit difficult!
Once again, thank you for the blog, the information and the photgraphs.
Kind Regards
Geoff
Apparently my grandparents lived in Clark's Buildings, Great Lumley Road - John William Brydon. My mother was Violet Brydon born 1919. I have no further information as I was adopted and have only just discovered this connection. If anyone knows anything about the Brydons I should be most grateful to hear it. mccrindle16@yahoo.co.uk
ReplyDeleteIn 1916 John Duesbury, Clarkes cottages Swinefleet, took part in an attack during the Battle of the Somme. He was severely injured and trapped in a shell hole, where he wrote a letter that was later found on his corpse.
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