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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations 13:44 - Aug 27 with 2010 viewsSteve_M

Well I thought some of these were quite interesting anyway:

https://www.theguardian.com/ar

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 13:55 - Aug 27 with 1946 viewsRadlett_blue

the UK now has only around 8,000 petrol stations, as against 40,000 in the 1950s. Supermarkets cutting petrol margins & the value of city centre property must be the 2 biggest factors.

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 14:08 - Aug 27 with 1905 viewsbluearmy4838

This has got the hallmarks of a C4 documentary. Steve visits the UK's most interesting Garages.

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 14:12 - Aug 27 with 1884 viewsCheltenham_Blue

Back in the late 00's I was sent to the closed RAF Upper Hayford to document,(photograph), the mothballed airbase. Petrol (Gas) station there still had all the pumps in place all with the counters in US Dollars.
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 14:57 - Aug 27 with 1780 viewsIllinoisblue

Fun fact: it’s illegal to pump your own fuel in the state of New Jersey.

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 15:05 - Aug 27 with 1750 viewsDJR

I particularly like the Modernist building.
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 15:14 - Aug 27 with 1724 viewsTheBlueGnu

Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 14:57 - Aug 27 by Illinoisblue

Fun fact: it’s illegal to pump your own fuel in the state of New Jersey.


"pump your own fuel" - fnar, fnar !

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 15:54 - Aug 27 with 1668 viewsArnoldMoorhen

This former garage in Edinburgh was designed in the early 1930s by Basil Spence, who designed Coventry Cathedral post-WW2. It's now a Majestic Wine shop, but still has some of the original design features:

https://www.trove.scot/place/7

(Click the button to see extra photos, which include two of Spence's original designs)

What it looks like now:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 16:38 - Aug 27 with 1601 viewsRadlett_blue

Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 15:54 - Aug 27 by ArnoldMoorhen

This former garage in Edinburgh was designed in the early 1930s by Basil Spence, who designed Coventry Cathedral post-WW2. It's now a Majestic Wine shop, but still has some of the original design features:

https://www.trove.scot/place/7

(Click the button to see extra photos, which include two of Spence's original designs)

What it looks like now:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/


Can you get cheap Rioja from one of the pumps?

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:05 - Aug 27 with 1562 viewsArnoldMoorhen

Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 16:38 - Aug 27 by Radlett_blue

Can you get cheap Rioja from one of the pumps?


"£1.34 a litre? Don't mind if I do!"
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:22 - Aug 27 with 1530 viewsflykickingbybgunn

Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:05 - Aug 27 by ArnoldMoorhen

"£1.34 a litre? Don't mind if I do!"


When I was first driving it was 3/4d (16p) per gallon. But the the wages were only £9/week.
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:24 - Aug 27 with 1521 viewsDJR

Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 15:54 - Aug 27 by ArnoldMoorhen

This former garage in Edinburgh was designed in the early 1930s by Basil Spence, who designed Coventry Cathedral post-WW2. It's now a Majestic Wine shop, but still has some of the original design features:

https://www.trove.scot/place/7

(Click the button to see extra photos, which include two of Spence's original designs)

What it looks like now:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/


I like that too.
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:24 - Aug 27 with 1519 viewsRadlett_blue

Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:22 - Aug 27 by flykickingbybgunn

When I was first driving it was 3/4d (16p) per gallon. But the the wages were only £9/week.


Did that include the Green Shield stamps?

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:30 - Aug 27 with 1499 viewsflykickingbybgunn

In 1942 the number of petroleum licences issued in Suffolk doubled. All farms.
The result of lend lease bringing in loads of petrol tractors from America.
Nearly all without advice as to where best to put the pumps and tanks.
Almost all rotted away now.
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 18:16 - Aug 27 with 1445 viewsmonkeymagic

The beautiful Manor Road Garage has now been converted into apartments. Signage and petrol pumps still in place.
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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 19:49 - Aug 27 with 1369 viewsEwan_Oozami

Great pics!

(Auto Shenanigans on You Tube is normally a good watch for this sort of thing!)

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Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 21:41 - Aug 27 with 1318 viewsflykickingbybgunn

Photo Thread: old garages and service stations on 17:24 - Aug 27 by Radlett_blue

Did that include the Green Shield stamps?


Quadruple.
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