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

9) Housing

Richard Cooper's new housing was probably built by Walter DIXIE, who himself lived in Richard Cooper Street in 1891 and was still there in 1901. That property (No.2) had a few extra touches to the decorative brickwork, and a small walled forecourt to the front street, giving it just a little more status than its neighbours! The houses were un-numbered but comparison with the 1901 census makes reasonably reliable guesswork where families stayed put (?). Who knows why this row was called Milton Cottages?

Walter DIXIE came to Goole in 1864, aged ten. His father was building the North Eastern railway line and Walter worked on the construction of the original railway viaduct (it was replaced recently) crossing the Knottingley & Goole Canal and the Dutch River.

In 1886 Dixie and John Ellis, the 24 year old second son of Mr. & Mrs. George Ellis of Memel Cottages in nearby Marshfield, formed a building and contracting partnership. Dixie sought approval to build houses in Marshfield, to which some of his neighbours moved from Richard Cooper Street.

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