The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread
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Excellent thread OP.
This old pump has been in the alcove to the right of this building for as long as I can remember (some decades then!).
Bow Street in Langport, Somerset: https://goo.gl/maps/FGgqi
No idea where the tank was - in the yard out back I presume. Back when I was a lad the reclamation shop was a barber's shop - no idea when/if there was a garage.
This old pump has been in the alcove to the right of this building for as long as I can remember (some decades then!).
Bow Street in Langport, Somerset: https://goo.gl/maps/FGgqi
No idea where the tank was - in the yard out back I presume. Back when I was a lad the reclamation shop was a barber's shop - no idea when/if there was a garage.
MarshPhantom said:
Dr Jekyll said:
Bebee said:
BP Cuckoo Oak Service Station, Tweedale, Shropshire. 1965, petrol was 64p a gallon.
Sure it wasn't 1975? Nearly 13 shillings a gallon would be astronomical in 1965.http://www.telford-live.com/2013/12/telford-histor...
There were two very old filling stations in Stockbridge in Hampshire until a few years ago. One had the pumps on the roadside outside what had become Stockbridge Racing when it was redeveloped (and now a deli). The other building kept the pumps somewhat decoratively until it became a restaurant just recently.
I'm ashamed to admit that I could have taken pictures of both, but I never did. I regret that, so if you see them then get some pictures before they are gone.
Oldest Google Street View image from 2008 shows one of them:
I'm ashamed to admit that I could have taken pictures of both, but I never did. I regret that, so if you see them then get some pictures before they are gone.
Oldest Google Street View image from 2008 shows one of them:
Edited by karma mechanic on Wednesday 6th May 09:49
Edited by karma mechanic on Wednesday 6th May 09:53
Butter Face said:
One in St Mawes in Cornwall was posted earlier in the thread and I was there a bit back so got a live pic!
There's also this very old one on the way out of St Mawes, it was a petrol station and they also used to sell British Leyland cars too!!
Saw both these last summer. I want that illuminated BL service sign!
There's also this very old one on the way out of St Mawes, it was a petrol station and they also used to sell British Leyland cars too!!
karma mechanic said:
There were two very old filling stations in Stockbridge in Hampshire until a few years ago.
Do you know if the old filling station is still in the centre of Petersfeld? It had a funny sign seen outside once. The Austrian wine industry got in trouble with the EU for adding glycol to their crap vintages. The sign outside the garage read-
Our Antifreeze is completely free of Wine.
Great thread this. Does anyone remember the old wooden service station on the London bound side of the A2 in Kent, just after the Rochester junction? (There was a more modern station about a mile further on, but this one was like a little wooden shack).
I was at university in Rochester in the mid 1990s and used it as a backdrop for a photo shoot. It was already derelict by then but had a great 'American Midwest' vibe. It's gone now, swallowed up by the change of road layout there. I'd love to see a pictire of it operating.
I was at university in Rochester in the mid 1990s and used it as a backdrop for a photo shoot. It was already derelict by then but had a great 'American Midwest' vibe. It's gone now, swallowed up by the change of road layout there. I'd love to see a pictire of it operating.
YorkshirePudding said:
Not sure if the one just down the road from Cadwell Park is still going,
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.291336,-0.089194...
Go passed that one maybe 3-4 times a year and the last time (maybe a month ago) cars were blocking both entrance and it looked quieter than usual.https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.291336,-0.089194...
DickyC said:
to travel hopefully...
...is a better thing...
... than to arrive
The 'now' picture I took earlier today, the StreetView is dated August 2011
It is the Marie Celeste of garages in Ramsbury in Wiltshire. I went with such high hopes.
That's very disappointing - I was thinking it looked worth a detour too. That red Fiesta has been there a while then......is a better thing...
... than to arrive
The 'now' picture I took earlier today, the StreetView is dated August 2011
It is the Marie Celeste of garages in Ramsbury in Wiltshire. I went with such high hopes.
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