Timetable booklets dated April 1954 and March 1963 for the Holme Delight bus service, provided from 1953/1955 primarily
by two AEC double-deckers, Regent III/Park Royal HDO661 and Regent III/ Willowbrook FDO573. The latter
is preserved at the LVVS museum at Lincoln. The bus route (but not the coaching business) passed to Kime in 1970.

This timetable was current in 1933.  Much more activity on Saturday and Sunday than during the week. Despite the several routes
they could be interworked and covered by one vehicle on Monday to Friday, two on Saturday and one on Sunday. Some very
modest sized villages like Woodnook and Sproxton seem to have been very well served too.
 The routes passed to Lincolnshire Road Car in 1936.

The example timetables below are for the Bourne to Peterborough and Bourne to Stamford routes and cover a wide range of years.
The Peterborough route started in 1923 and was the most important for the business as Peterborough grew in post-war years.
When first formed as a company the name was Delaine Coaches Limited with a mixed fleet of coaches and buses.
Since 1995 it has traded as Delaine Buses Limited, operating with an all bus fleet.

Timetable current in 1933. Arthur Girdlestone (who had driven previously for Whipple) competed with Reliance on these two routes.
He gave up in favour of Reliance in 1933, despite an offer from Lincolnshire Road Car for his business.  Reliance incorporated
his timings in their own services on the routes. One vehicle could cover the workings on both of the routes in the timetable below.
Whipple had sold out to Reliance in 1930 but Whipples Garage in Watergate Grantham continued until the mid-1980s when the
premises became a branch of KwikFit.

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.

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.

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.

Pre-war timetables for three of Greswell's routes before the move of operations in 1939 to a new base in Victoria Street, Billingborough.
The starting point in Aslackby was given as Church Corner. The Bourne service below was Thursday daytime for market and Saturday
evening for cinema. There was also another Thurday market route to Bourne via Kirkby Underwood.  The Gresswell business was
acquired by Wings of Sleaford in March 1964 (the proprietor of Wings had once driven for Gresswell).  In the late 1950s and early
1960s, and unusually for a private operator in the shires, Gresswell had a Gibson ticket machine of the type that was used in large
quantity by London Transport. The machine passed to Wings and wa used by them until at least 1965.

Based in the market town of Alford at the foot of the Lincolnshire Wolds, this business was started in March 1930 by Frederick Hunt with a 14-seater Chevrolet. That first vehicle was employed to run from Alford to and from Boston three times a day, a route continued for many
 years. The illustration below shows the 1974 timetable for the route.  Hunts continue to this day as operators of a fleet of luxury coaches,
and the family firm still provides several bus services in and around the area (but no longer their original route to Boston).

The first timetables below are from 1949 with the extension of the routes from the village to serve Folkingham Camp.
Typically they also show the market day type of operation current at that time in the operator's history,
with services radiating from Folkingham in various directions each day of the week except Friday.
(The timing point 'Blue Harbour' in the Grantham Saturday timetable should be 'Cold Harbour').

The pages below are from a modest but undated timetable booklet. From the routes shown it would be appear to have been
published between 1956 (Spalding route discontinued) and 1972 (introduction of daily Grantham service).

In 1970 Kime's Coaches took over the route from Boston to Spalding previously operated by Camplin of Donington (see above).
This is the timetable from March 1974. This was their first expansion into regular all day daily bus operation.

1981 saw expansion of the Folkingham to Sleaford service into daily operation as Road Car withdrew from the road.
By this time Kime was also operating another former Road Car route from Osbournby via Culverthorpe, Oasby and
Welby to Grantham (taken over in 1977). Hence the reference to connections from Sleaford
to Grantham on Saturdays. Also see the driver's Saturday instruction sheet illustrated below.

A modest sized bus operator until significant growth in 1960 when the routes of nearby Gosling of Mareham-le-Fen
were taken over. The first three timetables date from 1974 and 1975 respectively, after taking over the Gosling routes;
the fourth from the pre-1960 era.The Monday market service to Spilsby is included in the Skegness timetable.
Although no timetable page available to display presumed that the original Coningsby to Boston routes continued after 1960.

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.

Pulfrey 2009 timetable for the Grantham to Woolsthorpe route, subsidised by the county council. This was interworked
on a one vehicle basis with Grantham town route 620 to Sunningdale.  The 620 was jointly operated with Centrebus.

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.

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.

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.

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 Billie Searson the bus route and business was continued by his son
Brian and grandson Stephen until passing to Pulfrey of Great Gonerby in 1969.

Prince Coach Service, undated post-war timetable, with the 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.

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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