HULLEYS OF BASLOW
ENGLAND & WALES
Based: Head office and depot – Derwent Garage, Calver Road, Baslow, Derbyshire
Website: www.hulleys-of-baslow.co.uk
Founded: 1914 when Henry Hulley, chauffeur at The Hydro hotel in Baslow, purchased a Ford Model T taxi. Bus operation started 1921 with another Model T on Bakewell- Chesterfield route via Baslow, today’s service 170.
Seven vehicles operating services throughout Peak District by 1934, plus summer excursions to such destinations as York, Skegness, Southport and Blackpool. Family founded today’s Henry Hulley & Sons Ltd company January 1938.
The death of Thomas Hulley in 1971 prompted the remaining directors, all nearing retirement age, to sell the business in 1978 to the Wooliscroft family, who owned Silver Service at Darley Dale. Hulleys name reinstated 1988 when Wooliscroft family sold Baslow operation to Silver Service transport manager Arthur Cotterill and Peter Eades, a Hulleys mechanic and driver. Wooliscroft business liquidated with a year.
With Cotterill’s retirement in 2001, ownership passed entirely to the Eades family, distantly related to the Hulleys. On Peter Eades’s death in 2012, his son Richard took charge.
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