Editing Goole (section)

===Development===
[[File:Goole, The Lowther Hotel - geograph.org.uk - 157238.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Lowther Hotel'', reputedly the first building constructed in New Goole in 1824, opened as the ''Banks Arms Hotel'', named after [[Edward Banks (builder)|Sir Edward Banks]] a contractor for the [[Aire and Calder Navigation]] company.]]
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In the 1820s the [[Aire and Calder Navigation]] company proposed development of a new canal to transport coal from the existing broad canal from [[Knottingley]] in the northern sector of the coalfield in 1826. Once it reached Goole the company proposed development of a new [[floating dock (impounded)|floating dock]] capable of handling larger sea-going vessels. Chief engineer Thomas Hamond Bartholomew was instructed to build the canal, docks and an associated company town to house both the dock workers and visiting seamen.<ref name=Porteous/> Bartholomew commissioned civil engineer and builder [[Edward Banks (builder)|Sir Edward Banks]] company to construct part of the canal and the eight [[transshipment]] docks and to lay out the associated new town to the west of the existing wooden bridge.  The Banks Arms Hotel on Aire Street – today known as the Lowther Hotel – was in 1824 the first building constructed in what was known as New Goole; ''The Macintosh Arms'' [[public house]] on the same street took its name from engineer [[Hugh McIntosh (civil engineer)|Hugh Macintosh]].<ref name=Porteous/>

When Goole port opened on 20 July 1826 it was a new community of about 450 people.<ref name=Porteous/> Now it is a town with about 18,000 inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book|first1=H. |last1=Tolley |first2=K. |last2=Orrell |year=1978|title= Yorkshire |edition =third |isbn=0-521-21918-3}}</ref>
[[File:TomPuddingHoist.jpg|thumb|left|A [[Tom Pudding]] hoist in Goole docks]]
[[William Hamond Bartholomew]] succeeded his father T. H. Bartholomew in 1853 and in 1863 introduced the [[Tom Pudding]] system of compartment boats, which could carry around {{convert|40|LT|kg}} of coal. On reaching the docks the barges were lifted by large hoists, from which they could be discharged direct into seagoing ships, a system so successful that it competed against rail until 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.goole-on-the-web.org.uk/vol1/tom-puddings.html|title=Tom Puddings|publisher= Goole on the Web|access-date=23 January 2013}}</ref>