Goole 2026 Bicentenary Group

The countdown towards Goole’s 200th birthday in
2026. The date will mark the official launch of Goole 2026 to celebrate Goole’s bicentenary
and the opening of the Lowther Hotel in 1824.
The 20 th of July 1826 saw the official opening of the ‘Company’ town and port of Goole, but
the history of the town dates back several hundred years before this. In fact, the Lowther
Hotel dates back to 1824, Bridge Farm from the mid-18th century and Goole’s ‘Dutch’
connection with Cornelius Vermuyden to the early 17th century.  

Plans underway to celebrate Goole bicentenary read in the Goole Times