This is the first book to be published which takes a then & now view of Selby Goole Cawood & Howden. In Selby we see the magnificent Abbey its calamitous history & wonderful windows; & the River Ouse & the Selby Canal powerful commercial arteries which shaped the development of the town & its shipbuilding industry. Goole much younger owes its birth to Charles I & a Dutch civil engineer & it has developed into one of the UK's most important inland ports. Cawood was the closest Cardinal Wolsey got to taking his seat in York while the Bishop's Palace in Howden was a stopping place for the Prince Bishops of Durham on their way to London. Nearly 200 images supported by informative text will delight everyone interested in the history of these towns. Residents & visitors of any of them will enjoy a nostalgic journey through time that takes them back a hundred or so years & shows them how things have changed.