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Carriers
Carriers were the early form of public road transport, though not a bus service by any
means. Carriers would generally take any goods, and sometimes people, to particular places, as their name suggests, but they would also ‘shop’ for people from the village and bring the bought goods back for customers in
Winteringham.
The special feature of the Winteringham carriers was that they frequently ran their services to
coincide with the village ferry, and the usual destinations of their services were Hull and Barton. In any case, Scunthorpe was just another village when they were at their height of popularity.
Some of the village carriers were:
1856: Henry Robinson and James Sewell
to Barton and Hull (White’s Directory)
1861: James Sewell, to Barton on Monday, Hull Tuesday & Friday; Henry Robinson, James Sewell, to Barton on Monday, Hull Tuesday & Friday (Post Office Directory)
1868: John Sewell, to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays; Henry Robinson , to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays (Post Office Directory)
1885: Robert Cook Thornton
to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays; Henry Robinson , to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays (Kelly’s Directory)
1889: Robert Cook Thornton
to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays; Henry Robinson , to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays (Kelly’s Directory) Note: Robert Cook Thornton was also the licensee of the Ferry Boat Inn
1905:
George Clayton to Hull, Tuesdays and Fridays, Henry Smith to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays (Kelly’s Directory)
1909: George Clayton to Hull, Tuesdays and Fridays,
William Henry Smith to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays and Fridays (Kelly’s Directory)
1919 George Clayton to Hull, Fridays, William Henry Smith
to Barton on Mondays, and to Hull on Tuesdays (Kelly’s Directory)
According to a 1926 directory, Altoft
operated to Scunthorpe on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Buses
 It was Altofts who ran the first bus services to and from the
village in the 1920s. This was replaced by the services of the ‘Humber Road Car Company’ which was then taken over by “Enterprise Passenger Services” in 1937, some of whose
coaches were housed in a large garage in High Burgage.
With nationalisation of bus services, Lincolnshire Road Car
operated all the buses through the village from 1950, and they continued to keep buses in the garage in High Burgage until 1960, when it was sold.
The bus operations then stabilised for many years under Lincolnshire Road Car and then the National Bus Company,
but for a more detailed history of that company you may click here and then select ‘History’ from the RoadCar site. This also has pictures of the kinds of double and single decker buses that frequented the Winteringham routes.
Modern service information is available on the RoadCar site too, but for the record, the services operated in the 1950s
and 1960s were these:
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