History of Eavesway Travel

Our beginnings date back to 1930 when the brothers Edward and Thomas Eaves set up a partnership together in Ashton in Makerfield near Wigan, Lancashire. Originally they transported coal from the local pits and also undertook removals for local people. They soon started carrying passengers to local destinations at the weekends and this quickly developed into the major part of the business. During the war years contracts were operated for the MOD carrying German POW's.

In the post war years and early 1950's they developed the coaching business with the addition of day excursions to an expanding number of destinations and an increasing volume of private hire business. During this period the garage site on Wigan Road, Ashton in Makerfield which was to become the Companies base for many years was purchased. The site incorporated both car and petrol sales over the years in addition to the coach operation.

The partnership was incorporated as a Limited Company (Eavesway Motor Coaches Ltd) in 1965 and two ABTA travel agencies were opened selling both the Companies own tours and those of other major tour operators.

Toffees Onboard

During the 1970's under the direction of the second generation of the family to enter the business the coaching was further developed with the introduction of a British and Continental Tours programme. It was at this time that specialist executive coach hire commenced when we were approached by Everton FC to undertake their team transport.

In the 1980's, with the third generation of family now involved, the upgrading of the coach operation continued with increasingly high quality and specialised work being undertaken to complement our normal coaching operations.