The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread
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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! ![](http://thumbsnap.com/sc/mtrhvTaF.jpg)
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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!
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Street view:-
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3433814,-3.04852...
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!
![](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3087/2766990099_b961300f7a.jpg)
Street view:-
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3433814,-3.04852...
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Tankstelle-in-Zentraler-Lag...
Retro city-centre petrol station for sale on Ebay in Düsseldorf
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Retro city-centre petrol station for sale on Ebay in Düsseldorf
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DickyC said:
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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.
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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.
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79.9p per litre? So, not a million years ago it was still functioning like this.
Hope they're refurbishing it and not demolishing!
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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:
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Brinkworth in Wiltshire; the longest village in England.
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.
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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.![](https://thumbsnap.com/sc/OpbYRq8h.jpg)
Okay, there's a slim chance it was a cinema but my money is on fuel retailing.
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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.
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.482929,-1.621614...
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https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.482929,-1.621614...
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