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GOSLING OF
MAREHAM-LE-FEN
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Founded in 1922 the firm ran
a modest number of bus services to the nearby market towns of
Horncastle,
Boston and
Spilsby. This 1933 timetable was conceived to meet the needs
of shoppers and market-goers.
The bus routes (but not
the garage business) passed to Milson of Coningsby in March 1960.
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The
September 1943 timetable below showed little change over the 1933
timetable above
except for the second route to Boston via Tumby Woodside
on
Wednesday; and a reduction in the number of journeys to
Boston on the original route from Mareham via Revesby (from six to five
on Wednesday
and from seven to five on Saturday). The Skegness
service was suspended during the war with anticipated reintroduction in
1946.
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The timetable below from June
1959 (probably the last issued by Gosling's) shows surprisingly little change over the
26 years since the 1933 timetable above. The Wednesday
service to Boston via Revesby reduced from five to four journeys but a
Wednesday service introduced on the alternate route via Tumby
Woodside. On Saturday the Revesby route restored to 1933 levels,
increased from five to seven journeys again. The Monday route to
Spilsby has gone; but this appears to have been reinstated after
the takeover of routes by Milson of Coningsby.
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PULFREY OF GREAT
GONERBY
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Pulfrey
timetable booklet (undated, probably from 1962/1963 because of the
reference to works services for Alfred Wisemans,
an engineering firm in Grantham
that seems to have only operated there under their own name for those
two years).
Market day in Newark was Wednesday and in Grantham it was Saturday,
accounting for the extra activity on that day.
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Pulfrey
timetable dated September 1982.
Lincolnshire Road Car route 22 also ran from Grantham to Newark
but to a more westerly route via Allington, Foston and Long Bennington.
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RELIANCE OF GREAT GONERBY
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Two pre-war timetables, current in 1932. The frequencies shown for the local routes to Gonerby and Barrowby incorporate
the additional timings obtained with the take-over of Whipple's business (from whom came the rural routes below too).
Girdlestone is still operating on these two local Grantham routes at this time and his business has yet to be acquired.
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Some timetables from 1978 for W J Simmons trading as Reliance, including Grantham town services
and the country routes to Ropsley, and to Bourne via Irnham, Corby Glen and Swinstead.
A complete 1961 timetable booklet can be found here.
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For completeness, an example timetable from the Mass Reliance era, dated June 2004, for the Grantham to Sleaford route.
This can be compared with
the June 1932 timetable immediately below for the same route when
operated by Rickett of Ancaster.
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RICKETT
(CLASSIC SAFETY COACHES OF ANCASTER)
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Rickett's route between Grantham and
Sleaford passed to Lincolnshire Road Car in 1934 although discussions
had taken place
previously for the route
to be acquired by Wilfred Simmons (Reliance of Great Gonerby). Rickett
also operated an express service
to Skegness as well as
excursions from Ancaster. The emphasis of the route appears to have
been on Sleaford rather than Grantham.
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PRINCE COACH SERVICE
(SEARSON OF BARKSTON)
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Prince Coach Service, undated pre-war
timetable but current in 1932.
Their route to Marston
left
Grantham on the Lincoln road, whereas the
other (Pulfrey) route to Marston
left
Grantham on the Great North Road.
Founded by Willie Searson the bus route and business was continued by his
son Brian and grandson Stephen until passing to Pulfrey of Gonerby in 1969.
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Prince
Coach Service, undated post-war
timetable, with route extended to Brandon.
Although buses arrive at
Brandon and depart immediately the possible
use of
a circular route
returning
direct to Marston from Brandon seems not to
have been considered.
The road between Grantham and Barkston was also covered by Road
Car services to Lincoln and Sleaford.
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SHARPE OF
HECKINGTON
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The first timetable is labelled 'proprietor J. Sharpe' so can be no later than 1947 when the business became Sharpes Motors Ltd.
The timetable is finely tuned to local needs running Monday daytime for the market and Saturday evening for the
cinema, even distinguishing between when the cinema in Sleaford had one or two evening performances.
The second timetable would have been current circa 1977, possibly until the end of the service.
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