The Yorkshire Waterways Museum in Goole has called in Revive Business Recovery, a firm specializing in insolvency, and is understood to be closing its doors on May 15th.
The Museum organises boat trips around the town’s docks and canal, as well as being a very popular school trip destination, offering a nature trail, guided activities and workshops and residential trips on board a 12 berth boat. Visitors to the Waterways Museum learn about the Aire and Calder Navigation, and visitors get an insight into the iconic ‘Tom Puddings’ – a name given to tub boats which carried coal from Yorkshire’s coalfields through Goole and across Europe.
In addition to being a museum and a popular café, the facility houses The Sobriety Project – an East Yorkshire charity which uses the museum’s vessels, nature trails and allotments to help disadvantaged people in the community. The space is used to hold art exhibitions, workshops and classes, and provides a much needed community space for the town.
A member of staff, speaking on behalf of The Waterways said although there was a chance the museum could be saved, hopes of a rescue looked slim.
