The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread
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backwoodsman said:
Humber Sceptre in the garage? Sorry. Humer Ceptre.
Got a bit lost yesterday. Mrs C and I dropped off wheels in Rednal and chairs in Flixton on Wednesday, and yesterday picked up a table and chair in Tamworth and a pair of chairs near Barton in the Beans. Is it any wonder we got lost? Anyway, at one point we drove through Heather. No, seriously. Heather in north west Leicestershire. And this is what we saw:
I shall be visiting the Classics Left to Die thread presently.
I shall be visiting the Classics Left to Die thread presently.
A garden machinery specialist in Ashford Hill near Newbury that I discovered by accident. According to the lady in the shop, they stopped selling fuel around five years ago.
"We had a regular customer who would bring his mower in for a service every year and throughout the summer he would pop in for half a gallon for the mower every so often. But he filled his Jaguar up at Tescos. Dead put out he was when we stopped."
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why small independent fuel retailers have become a thing of the past.
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.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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