The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread

[Butter Face]

When was that taken? 93.9 a litre?

[alpha channel]

Z4monster said:

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

Err Barnard Castle isn't in North Yorkshire , it's Teesdale (south) County Durham though you can see North Yorkshire from there (my Grandparents used to live just up the road outside Eggleston and my favourite part of the world) and alas that petrol station isn't there any more. I posted it a few pages back only to discover its demise from a fellow PHer. I've since been through Barnie and alas 'tis a sad sight to see as it had been there all my life pretty much as you see it in that image.

Edited by alpha channel on Sunday 15th May 08:10

[Hugo a Gogo]

I think I'm the one who told you

I'm not sure if it was already selling petrol at the time this pic was taken

lovely '36 US Ford Woody 'shooting brake' - probably for the grouse shooting

was always Jackson's garage as I remember it, the great smell of 4 star, pump hoses reaching over the footpath, pink paraffin round the back

all these 'roadside' pumps are gone, doomed by safety regs

(btw, you've got good eyesight if you can see N Yorks from Barney)

edit: pic from this FB group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/yeoldteesdale/phot...

and another

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Sunday 15th May 09:36

[Alucidnation]

I am lead to believe this was a petrol station many moons ago.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9226679,-1.78736...

Just on the slip road into Fordingbridge from Ringwood on the A338, and apparently is a listed building.

[gforceg]

I'd be interested to know when that station went out of use. I used to live and drive around that area in the 80s and 90s and can't remember it.

A few miles back towards Ringworm there's a used car place on the left which a long time ago used to have a D Type (or replica) up on the flat roof of one of the buildings.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9050952,-1.78169...

ETA, I've looked at the different images for the years they have them on Google maps and that place has changed hands a few times and seems to be slipping toward oblivion too.

Edited by gforceg on Sunday 15th May 11:58

[Alucidnation]

gforceg said:

I'd be interested to know when that station went out of use. I used to live and drive around that area in the 80s and 90s and can't remember it.

A few miles back towards Ringworm there's a used car place on the left which a long time ago used to have a D Type (or replica) up on the flat roof of one of the buildings.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9050952,-1.78169...

ETA, I've looked at the different images for the years they have them on Google maps and that place has changed hands a few times and seems to be slipping toward oblivion too.

Edited by gforceg on Sunday 15th May 11:58

If i had googled it properly to start with, i could have used this link instead..!

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/misc-sites/18...


Blue Star stations were only around in the 70's according to the above link.

I seem to remember one of the garages along that road were rumoured to be selling cut & shut cars a long time ago, and providing generally bad service, so that could be the reason why it has changed hands a few times, assuming it is that one of course!

Edited by Alucidnation on Sunday 15th May 12:15

[gforceg]

Alucidnation said:

If i had googled it properly to start with, i could have used this link instead..!

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/misc-sites/18...


Blue Star stations were only around in the 70's according to the above link.

I seem to remember one of the garages along that road were rumoured to be selling cut & shut cars a long time ago, and providing generally bad service, so that could be the reason why it has changed hands a few times, assuming it is that one of course!

Edited by Alucidnation on Sunday 15th May 12:15

Excellent, thanks for the link.

[Z4monster]

alpha channel said:

Err Barnard Castle isn't in North Yorkshire , it's Teesdale (south) County Durham though you can see North Yorkshire from there (my Grandparents used to live just up the road outside Eggleston and my favourite part of the world) and alas that petrol station isn't there any more. I posted it a few pages back only to discover its demise from a fellow PHer. I've since been through Barnie and alas 'tis a sad sight to see as it had been there all my life pretty much as you see it in that image.

Edited by alpha channel on Sunday 15th May 08:10

That serves me right for believing the link on T'Internet! Shame it has closed. I was up there a few years ago and thought I was seeing things at first. The article I read did say that legislation and stuff was trying to get it closed down. Sad loss to such a lovely place.

[alpha channel]

Hugo a Gogo said:

I think I'm the one who told you
(btw, you've got good eyesight if you can see N Yorks from Barney)

Edited by Hugo a Gogo on Sunday 15th May 09:36

Indeed you did (about the closure) and love the photo's, damned those petty pen pushers to the deepest circles of hell! (and - bugger me! Co. Durham's borders extend a lot further south than I thought! I have to admit I'd never looked before now, you can however see the glint of sun off the solar panels on the Tan Hill pub from the back garden of what was once my grandparents.

A general shot taken more than a few years ago now from the garden, Tan hill is about 2cm to the left of the setting sun -



Not bad considering I was out taking a couple of photo's of the 6 foot+ icicles hanging off my Grandads roof, up to my knees in snow and it was taken single handedly with my back towards the sun.

).

[fooby]

Not exactly full of history but I always enjoy going past Rheged on the way to the Lakes, it's built into the field and sheep sometimes graze on the roof.

[Hugo a Gogo]

alpha channel said:

Indeed you did (about the closure) and love the photo's, damned those petty pen pushers to the deepest circles of hell! (and - bugger me! Co. Durham's borders extend a lot further south than I thought! I have to admit I'd never looked before now, you can however see the glint of sun off the solar panels on the Tan Hill pub from the back garden of what was once my grandparents.

A general shot taken more than a few years ago now from the garden, Tan hill is about 2cm to the left of the setting sun -



Not bad considering I was out taking a couple of photo's of the 6 foot+ icicles hanging off my Grandads roof, up to my knees in snow and it was taken single handedly with my back towards the sun.

).

Great pic. I know exactly where that is now, on the hill looking down on Eggleston. My mum almost bought one of the houses there years ago. I know you can see a long way from there but amazing that it's all the way to Tan Hill. By the way, you would've been able to see Yorkshire before 72. The old border was the Tees, right up to Cow Green and Langdon Beck

As far as petrol stations go, there are only two now in Teesdale, Barney and Mickleton

[alpha channel]

Aye, that's more or less just down the road, my grandparents place was/is called Sherwood, more or less smack bang in the middle of the Handkerchief plantation. The houses up there don't come up very often and out of them all I think my Grandparents place was one of the better plots with some of the best views (gits that bought it have damn near pulled it all down now).

We did notice that the Eggelston garage had more or less closed down as far as fuel was concerned when we went through on the way to Romaldkirk for Sunday lunch.

Looking at a google maps it could be a property in between but it's quite a valley and there's no higher peak beyond that horizon. Trouble with google maps there's no elevation data and taking a look on google maps, from the Tan Hill pub, it's possible as there's no higher peaks surrounding it, trouble is all the photo's from the Tan Hill view point are typically cloudy/not brilliant resolution.

[Hugh Jarse]

DickyC said:

Last time I was that way I went for a drink in the Red Lion only to find it was now a des res with only the old facade to say it had ever been a pub. It was on the market for £40,000,000. So I went to The Punchbowl. It wasn't an edifying experience. Once a pub has acquired a celebrity-based notoriety can it ever shake it off?

Mademe think of this - NSFW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGeFZzd0yUI lyrics in the description

[DickyC]

It was a bit early for that

I shall revisit it later when my critical faculties are functioing.

[veccy208]

What about this one in N.I? Still going though think it only sells diesel. Most of the wee ones round here gave up a few years back as new reg's came out for petrol storage. Wasn't worth their while putting new tanks in.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Garvagh,+Coler...

[Hugh Jarse]

veccy208 said:

What about this one in N.I? Still going though think it only sells diesel. Most of the wee ones round here gave up a few years back as new reg's came out for petrol storage. Wasn't worth their while putting new tanks in.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Garvagh,+Coler...

Brilliant wee thing! here's a screengrab.......

[Drummond Baize]

I don't think this has been posted before. It's on the A5 at Foster's Booth.

[lowdrag]

Never knew this site existed and wondered what on earth the name was all about. Nice sense of humour though. Anyway, here are a couple for you:-

Taken on the way back from the Hotel de France at La Chartre sur le Loir



Taken up in Normandy, where there are a few derelict cars as well:-

[SonicShadow]

Have we had this one near Bicknacre, Essex?

[DickyC]

lowdrag said:

Never knew this site existed and wondered what on earth the name was all about. Nice sense of humour though. Anyway, here are a couple for you:-

Taken on the way back from the Hotel de France at La Chartre sur le Loir



Taken up in Normandy, where there are a few derelict cars as well:-

Thanks for those, lowdrag, and for those you posted in the Classics Rotting thread. If you could bear to drive through rural France in an XK-SS on our behalf periodically, you could be Our Man in Pays de la Loire.