ELSEYS OF GOSBERTON
Operating from Quadring Fen to Spalding
Based in the village of Gosberton between Spalding and Donington, the service shown in the undated but pre-decimalisation (1971) timetable shows a generous level of service seven days a week on their bus route through the lanes from Quadring Fen, Gosberton Clough and West Pinchbeck to the market town of Spalding. The origins of the Elseys business are in 1949 when a previous partnership with Leverton was dissolved with the former concentrating on bus work and the latter on coaching. Another operator (Nightingale of Pode Hole, Spalding, trading as Reliance) also ran alongside Elseys on the Quadring Fen route. Reliance was acquired in 1960 along with two of their vehicles. Another recently viewed timetable leaflet from A & W Elsey of Gosberton, dating from 1980, shows timetables for the Spalding - Bourne, Spalding - Quadring Fen, Wigtoft - Spalding routes, as well as a Spalding town service. In later years following express service deregulation Elseys operated a daily coach service between Boston, Spalding and London. This continued until withdrawal at the end of summer 2007, although the Elsey business had been owned by TransLinc, a major operator in the county, since 2001.
with many thanks to John Brogden for the loan of the timetable,
and incorporating information from articles and publications
by Roy Marshall and David Kaye found in the libraries of Lincolnshire
