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 Couldon in running the business, which he took over in 1948.

When Hugh Walton (Freds Son) left school at 18 he joined his father chopping hay and straw and delivering in the early days by tractor and trailer for 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 straw which was then sold and delivered to the pit ponies in Wesst 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 Dalghety Selby, BOCM Selby, RM English Pocklington and United fish industries Hull, UAM Goole 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 Byson. Hughies first brand new lorry was a Leyland Byson in 1970s which was the start of his impressive fleet of lorries.

Hugh stuck to The Leyland Byson for many years before being proceeded by the Leyland Constructor before a change onto MAN EC range in the early 90s the fleet continued to grow over the years as the good name and hard working family started to enter the business, working many hours to make ends meet growing the fleet of lorries slowly to where we are today having 30 vehicles including MAN, Mercedeze and Renault.

All the bulk vehicles are blower waggons 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.