1) Shuffleton - Riverbank Community2) 12 Freehold Cottages at Shuffleton3) Shuffleton Mill4) Tallow Chandlery5) Ouse Cottage, Hook Road6) Richard Cooper 1825 - 19087) A New Warehouse 1885/6 - 19018) Packet Landing9) Housing10) Residents in Richard Cooper Street - 189111) Residents in Phoenix Street - 189112) Residents in Richard Cooper Street - 190113) Residents in Phoenix Street - 190114) Later Developments in Richard Cooper Street and 14A) Phoenix St. Residents 1907/1911 (even nos)15) 39 - 51 Richard Cooper Street - 1909 / 191116) 40 - 58 Richard Cooper Street - 1909 / 191117) Phoenix Street Development 190618) 41 - 56 Phoenix Street - 1909 / 191119) 60 - 70 Richard Cooper Street - 1907 / 191120) Residents in Richard Cooper Street - 194021) Residents in Phoenix Street - 192222) Residents in Phoenix Street - 193123) Residents in Phoenix Street - 194024) The Phoenix Works - arises time and time again25) Contemporary Memories26) Number 22 Phoenix Street Goole 1891-1976

3) Shuffleton Mill

Writing in January 1886, George West of The Field, Swinefleet, recounted in Methodism in Marshland that Mr. William Calvert built Shuffleton Mill. Mr. Calvert, who farmed at "Monica" (an area of Albert Street, now dockland) was the first leader of the Methodist Church in Goole. Its members met at the old "Sod Hut", then in Robert Bromley's Shed on Barge Dock Side until North Street Wesleyan Chapel was built in 1879.

Shuffleton Mill was powered by the wind when Mr. George Heron moved there from Swinefleet post mill. George's son, John Henry Heron, born in the 1860s, was brought to Goole aged three. He recalled how he "left school to help his father at the mill. They worked at night by light of tallow candles" and "worked every time the wind blew, no matter what hour of the day it was, and often the candle by which he would light his way to the top of the mill would blow out. If after a period of calm the wind rose in the middle of the night, and there was a danger of the wind getting behind the sails, an event that might lead to the whole mill top being blown off, his father would call him to help; clinging with his knees to a beam at the top of the mill, with a sheer drop of many feet below him, turning the fan in pitch darkness during frosty or snowy weather." It was 1893 before "the sails were removed and an engine installed".

 

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