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

5) Ouse Cottage, Hook Road

As the date-stone to Ouse Cottage shows, this house, built in "Bobby Harrison's field, with its gardens, a stable and piggeries" was named for the river it overlooks in 1880.  By 1884, when Richard Cooper bought land from Harrison, Ouse Cottage was home to Edwin West Hunter and his wife. Edwin's marriage to Mary, a teacher who came to Goole from Bradford in 1878 to be headmistress of the infants department at the newly-opened Alexandra Street School (since demolished), took place about 1880.

Mr. Hunter was a grandson of William West, the founder of the coal trade he exported in  ships under sail.  His father, William West Hunter, set up in business as a tailor and woollen draper in 1850 and his son followed him into the trade. Their shop was in Bank Buildings, Aire Street, where Richard Cooper's ironmongery re-located. In 1888 W. Hunter & Son were able to advertise “A suit made to order in nine hours”.

Mr. Hunter Jnr. also acted as Goole agent for the Halifax Permanent Benefit Building Society, believing that "every man should be his own landlord and if he was would soon feel the pinch of the rates". He disagreed with the past financial policies of the Local Board, that "constantly called upon the citizens to pay heavy rates without any corresponding benefits". In his view the ratepayers' money "had not been spent judiciously, or the working man would not have such large rents to pay ...". He failed to see what the considerable amount of money had been spent on - beyond "a mere water cart, a steam roller, a fire engine, and the roads had not been very well done".

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