OUR HISTORY
The story of
H Walton Ltd.
The business was established in the early 1900’s by Mr H Coulson. He went off to fight in the first world war and on his return from the war he married Lillian Burnitt (Nee Walton). Her nephew Fred Walton joined Mr Coulson in running the business, which he took over in 1948.
When Hugh Walton (Fred’s Son) left school at 18 he joined his father chopping hay and straw and delivering in the early days by tractor and trailer to stock farmers and pit ponies all over Yorkshire and Lancashire, also delivering compound feeds to local customers.
In 1973 the name of H Coulson was changed to H Walton.
When the business was under H Coulson, the mill at South Park used to chop hay and straw which was then sold and delivered to the pit ponies in West Yorkshire
When Hugh first took over the business in 1973, he used to collect animal feed from BOCM Silcock at Selby on a Nuffield tractor with a flatbed trailer on the back of which we still have in our yard renovated to its former glory.
Hugh soon moved onto buying lorries to deliver the feed from various mills in the East Riding including Dalgety Selby, BOCM Selby, RM English Pocklington and United fish industries Hull, and Timms Flour Goole are just a few which Hugh dealt with.
The vehicles were often bought second hand and were Dodge, TK Bedford and bulk Leyland Bison. Hugh’s first brand new lorry was a Leyland Bison in the1970s which was the start the businesses growing fleet of lorries.
Hugh stuck to The Leyland Byson for many years followed by the Leyland Constructor before moving on to MAN EC range. In the early 90s the business continued to grow as Hugh and Julia’s children started to enter the business. In April 2001 Ken Fletcher joined the business from Cargill trading alongside Hugh. Ken remained with the business until retiring in October 2018 . During this time the business grew steadily serving the pig, poultry and ruminant sectors both to farm and to compounders and blenders.
Today the business runs a fleet of 30 Lorries including MAN, Mercedes and Renault. All the bulk vehicles are blower wagons 12 artic and 9 eight wheelers we have one artic tanker which carries predominantly soya oil. The rest are taught liners ranging from six wheelers to artic with the option of having a Moffat for palleted deliveries.
