The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread

[wildcat45]

theadman said:

Cheating a bit but....there was a great garage north of Banbury at Little Bourton on the A423.

This is what you would have seen in the mid 70s







Forgive the rubbish pictures, but you get the idea.

Sadly, you'd drive straight past it today...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Great+Bourton,+B...

Off topic. I appreciate I may get thrown out for this. What are those cars? I love them.

[GOG440]

wildcat45 said:

theadman said:

Cheating a bit but....there was a great garage north of Banbury at Little Bourton on the A423.

This is what you would have seen in the mid 70s







Forgive the rubbish pictures, but you get the idea.

Sadly, you'd drive straight past it today...

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Great+Bourton,+B...

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Off topic. I appreciate I may get thrown out for this. What are his cars? I love them.

They look like Facel Vega's to me, with a bedford van in the background

[DickyC]

Wigmore's in Bradfield near Reading have been in business a while.



Phone Bradfield 670.

It's now a Reading number: 0118 974 4670.

[EnglishTony]

Stockbridge, Hampshire.
Middle of the main drag.

[hidetheelephants]

Love the tangle of pipework feeding the pumps.

[DickyC]

Tis but a caff now.

[DickyC]

An upmarket caff admittedly.

[rovermorris999]

When I was a child in Hillingdon the generic name for any caff was a 'Jock's Box'. Was that just a local thing or has anyone else heard of it?

[EnglishTony]

DickyC said:

An upmarket caff admittedly.

I think I might be showing my age but it's a good 25 years since I lived in that part of the world.

[Puddenchucker]

[NDNDNDND]

A slight parallel, but here's an interesting thread that just cropped up on Jalopnik:

http://gizmodo.com/the-amazing-architectural-evolu...

[gforceg]

EnglishTony said:

Stockbridge, Hampshire.
Middle of the main drag.

I remember when it was a working garage. Doesn't seem that long ago.

There used to be a place back near Sutton Scotney where my dad and I went to collect a 1750 engine for his Alfa. Now a housing estate.

[Alex]

Only just discovered this awesome thread!

Just down the road from me near Petworth is the Flower Bowl Garage. It featured in an advert with the Smurfs many years ago.

Still fully open.



https://goo.gl/maps/fXbiKdDZ6TN2

[Bonefish Blues]

DickyC said:

It was the Model T on the roof that attracted me to the Three Corners Garage in Ambrosden south east of Bicester.

I think you'd like Oxford Autogas's site at Tiddington. IIRC Kenny the owner has some old photos of the site, too.

[BenWRXSEi]

Don't think we've had this yet... Collett's Garage in Wheatley:

[GOG440]

This

Here.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.7301033,0.033264...

Still a fully working garage, most of it seems to be tucked in behind the shops.

[baldy1926]

Sorry for the rubbish photo.
This is an old garage which is now a double glazing show room. Its just off the town center of East Dereham.
The pump is straight onto the road
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=1zbh1kl&s=9

[DickyC]

Hopkinson's Garage, Reading Road, Eversley. It looks much the same now as it did when ar were a lad, in the old days.





Despite being busy, when I popped in to ask if they would mind if I took pictures and posted them, the friendly chaps there found a picture of the garage as it was in the even older, old days. If I still lived round there they'd get my business, I can tell you.



It was like a free house pub for petrol; I can see Shell, BP and National Benzole for sale.

[unsprung]

Some lovely photos here: the architectural evolution of the petrol station.


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[Z4monster]

This one is in Barnard Castle in North Yorkshire. The pumps are actually in the shop front and the hoses hang from the canopy above your head.

Edited by Z4monster on Saturday 14th May 22:11