Happy Birthday Mr Stabby

Somehow, I get the idea I don't have too many birthdays left. 

(trembling as I type) Have a real good birthday
Phil

Happy Birthday I have a spare 1500 BMC if you ever need it, was busy sailing yesterday with JohnV so missed the day so to speak

oh your really close to me now,id best make the effort to come and say hello.

Goole Wetherspoons. We visited twice and were quite happy to eat there.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4869870/Mum-banned-Wetherspoons-messy.html

 Try the 'secret footpath'.  From the Goole Boathouse Marina / Yorkshire Waterways Museum you follow the road along the Dutch River (which flows inland sometimes!) to the A161. Turn left towards the town, don't go over the bridge but turn right down South Street, and at the end you do a left and right and can walk over the lock. Then the footpath (it's obvious) follows the water's edge and you cross the bridge to enter Aire Street and past The Lowther Hotel, Goole's oldest building:


 "The Lowther Hotel, originally known as The Banks' Arms Hotel, stands on Aire Street and was the first permanent building of the new town of Goole (there had a been a village of Goole in existence for several centuries). It was commissioned by Sir Edward Banks, one of the contractors responsible for building the new canal and docks for the Aire & Calder Navigation Company. The building of the hotel is said to have cost him £4,000.



In 1824 George Leather, the engineer for the Aire & Calder Navigation Company, reported that 'the only building yet begun is an Inn, by Sir Edward Banks, which is getting up fast with the second storey'.



The building work was complete in time for the celebration meal at the opening of the canal on July 20th 1826 to be held at the hotel. It was then called The Banks' Arms and was the only building not owned by the Aire & Calder Navigation Company in the new town. It has right-angled corners whilst the rest of the buildings around it, built later, had 'rounded' corners. The Lowther's architecture is similar to Goole Hall, which was built for the ancient Empson family at around the same time.



The landlord in 1826 was Isaac Mason Harvey. He was born in 1791 at Aston-in-Trent and married Mary Britton at Lee in Kent in 1820. He was then described as a store agent and ran packet boats between Goole and Ferrybridge.



However, like many of his successors, he was not to remain an innkeeper for long. An advert for January 1827 describes him as bankrupt.
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   From here:     www.howdenshirehistory.co.uk/goole/lowther-hotel-history.html