The Humer Unbeam Interesting Filling Stations Thread

[DickyC]

Dr Jekyll said:

Not a filling station but a former garage outside the Millennium stadium in Cardiff.

Don't you just love Art Deco garages?




And if it isn't Art Deco I love whatever it is.

[DickyC]

Pleasure.

[Conundrum explained: elephantine eBay purchase, vendor not willing to post but lived on my way home. Item intercepted, parcelled, posted and, by the sound of it, received. Job jobbed. PH Self Help Group working admirably. No interesting filling stations were involved.]

[DickyC]

Spectacular lurking, doc. We're honoured.

[DickyC]

backwoodsman said:

Langwith, Derbyshire.

Proper 1 man place, and it's not self service.

https://goo.gl/maps/Kbylf

Humber Sceptre in the garage?

Sorry. Humer Ceptre.

[DickyC]

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.

[DickyC]

It's not a requirement so much as part of the definition.

[DickyC]

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.

[DickyC]

In Whitchurch in Hampshire, a garage which still functions but as it no longer sells petrol has sought other, less conventional, forms of income.

[DickyC]

Tony Starks said:

Someone posted 600 odd photos of Hong Kong through the years on my Facebook and I thought this would fit in this thread.

Marvellous.

[DickyC]

On the A303.

[DickyC]

Had to deliver a car to Torquay and the town went all French Riviera on me specially.



Which was nice.

[DickyC]

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.

[DickyC]

If we had a whip round we could buy it.

[DickyC]

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.

[DickyC]

Yes, sorry, HDE, I meant to mention that and forgot.

[DickyC]

It might be a front for the Special Operation Executive.

[DickyC]

Unbranded petrol station in Widnes. The girl behind the counter thought it was because it was the last family owned filling station in town. So, presumably, they just buy their fuel from wherever they want at the price they want. Sounds good to me.

[DickyC]

On a bus heading for the station, I passed this place in Bath during the week. It's probably for the chop as the adjacent lockups are currently being demolished. Thanks to Google Maps I found this recent shot of it in repose. It's really close to the city centre and must be a valuable site.

[DickyC]

Top Googling.

[DickyC]

Meanwhile, in Hill Billy country in Cornwall:





No Petrol.

Get away.