The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread

[Yipper]

Passed this in a little village in North Bucks, near Leighton Buzzard, on the weekend (someone else's photo).

Can see all the inner workings on the old Gulf pumps.

[GuinnessMK]

disad-vantage-d said:

Went out for a drive on Monday and came across this one at Hamsterley, Co. Durham.

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Damn, spotted that on Saturday on the way to go riding at Hamsterley Forest. Pleased I checked the whole thread before posting!

[DickyC]

Near Derby. I thought I'd posted this before but I can't find it. Apologies if it's a self repost.



A takeaway with a canopy. Novel.



This is the workshop attached to the defunct filling station with very grand windows rather at odds with the rest of it.

[SimonTheSailor]

Nick_MSM said:

I was just about to find a photo I took of that !! Looks just as nice in the flesh, have driven past it a few times.

[CypSIdders]

Saw these two a couple of days ago when I was out and about.
Funnily enough not that far from the OP's pictures, 19 miles away in Knighton.
No sign of a garage, just a garden centre now!



Street view:-

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3433814,-3.04852...

[DickyC]

DickyC said:

Took a customer's Range Rover to local experts Moss in Easton, half way between Newbury and Lambourn (that's the M4 you can see in the background). Blah blah blah

Extra detail:

[Hugo a Gogo]

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Tankstelle-in-Zentraler-Lag...

Retro city-centre petrol station for sale on Ebay in Düsseldorf

[CypSIdders]

DickyC said:

Post pictures of interesting filling stations and garages you come across: small, picturesque, disused, derelict or recycled - anything eye catching. Then and Now pics would be good too.

This one is in Llandrindod Wells. I had to stop the car and walk back.





When I searched on "Pritchard & Sons Llandrindod Wells" they are now Funeral Directors. That's a Change of Business Planning Application I would have liked to have seen.











79.9p per litre? So, not a million years ago it was still functioning like this.

This is a couple of miles from me, drove by on Friday, it is surrounded by scaffolding at the moment.
Hope they're refurbishing it and not demolishing!

[Logbert]

Found this in Ravenglass

[Hugh Jarse]

Holbeach, Lincs, the Fens.
Now removed, tried to buy them but someone got in first.

[wolfracesonic]

^ Those two pumps look like they're about to engage in a mutual suicide pact by blowing their brains out 'Lets do it, what do we have to live for now?'

[grumbledoak]

Possibly a repeat appearance, but asleep in the Mendips are these three amigos:

[Rickyy]

I've a feeling this has been posted before, but this in next to the Three Horseshoes in Peterston-Super-Ely.

The right hand pump seems ornamental, but the left hand one looks like it is/was functional.

[DickyC]

Ooh, yes. Art Deco features such a lot it not only identifies a most prolific era of petrol station construction but also helps to see what used to be a filling station.



Okay, there's a slim chance it was a cinema but my money is on fuel retailing.

[DickyC]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is what the shop attached to garages used to look like. A bit tired and looking like they were about to run out of everything. Despite appearances, this would have been fully operational.

This was parked up tight to it:



Brinkworth in Wiltshire; the longest village in England.

[DickyC]

Blakeney on the A48 between Gloucester and Chepstow.

It was the first time I'd driven along the west bank of the Severn and it's a scenic route. Highly recommended if you're out that way.

[Mark Benson]

DickyC said:

Ooh, yes. Art Deco features such a lot it not only identifies a most prolific era of petrol station construction but also helps to see what used to be a filling station.



Okay, there's a slim chance it was a cinema but my money is on fuel retailing.

Another Art Deco former showroom and filling station (used to be Sherwoods Vauxhall who are still operating) that's become a Majestic in Darlington, next door to my daughter's school.

[M1C]

Not sure if this one's been on yet but i saw Willowbridge Service Station on the way to Croft Circuit recently. Not long after Barton.



https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.482929,-1.621614...

[DickyC]

On the A44 near Chipping Norton.







As built. Note the pumps.



Expanded.



And a bit later.

[GOG440]

Logbert said:

Found this in Ravenglass

I have just trawled through every post on here to check before I posted, I took an almost identical photo yesterday