East Riding of Yorkshire Council’s Goole Museum is looking for memories, photographs, and objects that tell the story of an East Yorkshire town’s shipbuilding history. The Goole-Built exhibition hopes to feature photographs of shipyard workers and show artefacts such as tools, apprenticeship indentures, and union cards.

The exhibition is planned to run from 10 January and 14 March 2026. Organisers at Goole Museum are looking for family members who can pass on the stories or objects of relatives who worked in the yard. This includes the many women who were employed in shipbuilding during the Second World War.

Museum curator, Alex Ombler, said: “Shipbuilding was once a major industry in Britain. Goole’s shipyard and its workers were very much part of this tradition. In fact, the yard’s rivetters, welders, shipwrights and many other workers were considered amongst the finest tradesmen in the country. The materials gathered with the community will ensure that the exhibition is very much by, for and of the people of Goole.”

To email the team contact museum curator Alex Ombler at: alex.ombler@goolemuseum.gov.uk or by phone on 01405 768963.