We have received this request for information about Steeples bus service:
I am currently writing a history of Derbyshire’s independent bus operators in the days before deregulation and one of the 20+ operators which will be covered is Steeples of Parwich. I’m sure that many of your readers will remember this firm which ceased to trade in November 1967.I already have information on the “technical” side (such as the vehicles used and the licences held) but have been able to discover remarkably little about Mr RH Steeples himself. I wonder if I might appeal to your readers for some biographical information about the proprietor and his immediate family? Anecdotes and personal reminiscences about the bus services would also be welcome, although I am unable to use longer stories as I have more than 20 operators to fit into my allocated 160 pages!Those who provide assistance will receive a free copy of the book, which will have around 200 illustrations, 35 of them in colour, and will also include other companies once familiar in Ashbourne such as Allen of Roston, Carter of Hales Green, and Webster of Hognaston. The book is due to be published by Ventuire of Glossop later this year and will be priced at around £19.I hope that your readers can help me to do justice to the memory of this small but vital bus company – please feel free to pass my email address on to anyone who might be interested in helping.Best Wishes,Neville Mercerneville.mercer@googlemail.com
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As well as the house and garage in Creamery Lane, I understand the Steeples used a shed behind Hallcliffe Barn. All that remains now of this building are a set of stone sockets that were the bases for the timber frame.
I was told by the late Mr G Woolley that one of the early Steeples buses had a removable passenger compartmentment. On the days that there were no passenger services the bus was reversed into this shed, and the passenger compartment was winched up, and a flat bed lorry then drove out leaving it hanging there. The lorry then delivered bags of coal.
One of the climbing roses on the surviving drystone wall, behind where this shed was, is a cutting from one in the Steeples’ garden at the Creamery Lane garage.