BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK

BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1083214
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1986
List Entry Name:: BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK
Statutory Address:: BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1083214
Date first listed:: 18-Apr-1986
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK
Statutory Address 1:: BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOAT HOIST ON SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTH DOCK, BRIDGE STREET

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District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Goole
National Grid Reference:: SE 74268 22851

Details

GOOLE BRIDGE STREET SE 72 SW (west side, off)

10/55 Boat hoist on south side of South Dock (formerly listed as South 18.4.86 Dock, Boat Hoist adjacent to Knottingly and Goole Canal) GV II* Boat hoist. c1862, invented by W H Bartholomew to transfer coal from canal barge coal compartments into seagoing vessels. Framework of cast-iron girders stands on ashlar abutments and carries weather-boarded cabins and turret with asphalted roofs. 5-stage tower in pyramidal form with semicircular roofed cabin to fifth stage surmounted by tapering domed turret. Tall 3-storey compartment to east side. 12-pane Yorkshire sashes to first 2 storeys. Cradle at base is submerged below compartment boat which is raised on hydraulic cylinders to third stage where cradle tipping cylinder tips compartment boat to project coal down shoot into hold of waiting vessel. Buffers and clamp rectify tipped emptied compartment which is then returned hydraulically in the cradle back to the water. Upper cabins and tower house haulage gear. The compartment boats were popularly known as Tom Puddings, hence the familiar local name for the structures is "Tom Pudding Hoists". They were peculiar to Goole and originally there were 5. Two now remain; the other is adjacent to Aldam Dock. Disused at time of resurvey. 150 Years of the Port of Goole, British Waterways Board; Waterway World, October 1983.

Listing NGR: SE7426822851

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Legacy System number:: 165280
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
150 Years of the Port of Goole
'Waterway World' in October, (1983)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.