AN HISTORIAN has visited an East Yorkshire school to explore its heritage.

Goole Academy was open to the public as part of Heritage Open Day on Friday, September 12, and historian Ruth Harman visited the school as research for her work on an architectural guidebook on the town's major buildings.

The book is an updated version of a series of guidebooks looking at the nation's architecture.

Ruth said: "It has been really interesting to learn how the school has been developed and to have a look at plans for its future thanks to the current investment in the site.

"The series was started during the 1950s by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, a German art historian who settled in England. Known as the Pevsner Architectural Guides the books provide details of the most significant buildings in every part of the country. The one for the West Riding of Yorkshire, which included Goole, was published in 1959, so a lot of changes have obviously taken place since then."

Ruth was taken on a tour of the academy, parts of which were designed in 1909 by the same architects who designed the Cunard Building in Liverpool.

The latest edition of the guide is due to be published by Yale University Press in 2016.