The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread
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RobinBanks said:
Birchfield Garage in Much Wenlock was mentioned earlier in the thread and Fishtigua said he remembers it working forty years ago.
I first came across it circa 20 years ago and it didn't seem to be working then. As in for quite a while I passed it twice a day and it was never open and looked cobwebby and unused.
Where about is it?I first came across it circa 20 years ago and it didn't seem to be working then. As in for quite a while I passed it twice a day and it was never open and looked cobwebby and unused.
I drive through there 1-2 times a week.
alpha channel said:
A surprisingly interesting thread, can't say we've had this one - 
A little place in Barnard Castle, Galgate, still going strong as far as I'm aware.
closed a couple of years ago now, it's now a bicycle shopA little place in Barnard Castle, Galgate, still going strong as far as I'm aware.
used to be one on the opposite side of the road too, that's long gone
DickyC said:
In Whitchurch in Hampshire, a garage which still functions but as it no longer sells petrol has sought other, less conventional, forms of income.
There used to be a Skoda main dealer next door (Whitchurch Motor Company) run by a chap called Tony Maryon. Access was via Clacy's yard at the back and it had a window display on the street for the new cars. My brother did his apprenticeship there 25 years ago.raywillden said:
There used to be a Skoda main dealer next door (Whitchurch Motor Company) run by a chap called Tony Maryon. Access was via Clacy's yard at the back and it had a window display on the street for the new cars. My brother did his apprenticeship there 25 years ago.
It must be a fraternal thing. I meet my brother there every so often for dinner, a beer and a catch up.I'm surprised nobody's posted this one yet, as it's half way along one of the finest roads in Hertfordshire!
It's between Codicote and Hitchin on the B656. I don't get to drive the road very often any more but I did actually buy some petrol there once, a good few years ago now. Attendant service only, naturally.
It's between Codicote and Hitchin on the B656. I don't get to drive the road very often any more but I did actually buy some petrol there once, a good few years ago now. Attendant service only, naturally.
I recently passed through Brampton and had a towing related tyre infarction; this one-man-band sorted it for an embarrassingly small amount of money. I took some better pics on my phone but it's proving tricky to release them from its grasp. SPOT petrol? Who they? Little-known Cumbrian oil company perhaps. There was no decaying landrover but in substitution a dog-eared P6 in baby poo brown sat at the back right.
r129sl said:
Spotted this in Bristol yesterday and it appealed to me for the obvious reason.
Ashton Gate - just at the end of Winterstoke Road?? I remember that place from 35 years ago... Wasn't always an MB dealer, but it used to have a couple of mini motorbikes in its window, and I used to go in to look at them every now and then when I was, well, would have been less than 10, on my way to watch the Robins...
PomBstard said:
r129sl said:
Spotted this in Bristol yesterday and it appealed to me for the obvious reason.
Ashton Gate - just at the end of Winterstoke Road?? I remember that place from 35 years ago... Wasn't always an MB dealer, but it used to have a couple of mini motorbikes in its window, and I used to go in to look at them every now and then when I was, well, would have been less than 10, on my way to watch the Robins...Brafield on the Green, Northamptonshire.
An unusual perpendicular filling system. Most folk, as far as I could see, drove straight in, filled up and then reversed out. Reversing on to an A road? It's the A428, there must be traffic along there at times. Still, it's a local filling station for local people.
An unusual perpendicular filling system. Most folk, as far as I could see, drove straight in, filled up and then reversed out. Reversing on to an A road? It's the A428, there must be traffic along there at times. Still, it's a local filling station for local people.
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