Esso - Lower Village, Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside 1970's
This garage still exists today and had working pumps as recently as 2009. In that last era the pumps were seemingly unbranded - but gone altogether a bit later on. See here 2009 with pump www.google.com/maps/@53.3225017,-3.1022455,3a,75y,213.55h...
and then by 2017 the pumps seems to have gone www.google.com/maps/@53.3224846,-3.1022353,3a,75y,201.45h...
This is a scan of a postcard - the postcard was sent in 1982 (when a 2nd class ordinary stamp was 12 1/2 p) as is the stamp on this postcard. I'm guessing the photo was probably taken a year or two earlier. Here's the same view today www.google.com/maps/@53.3222674,-3.1019358,3a,75y,311.87h...
Esso - Lower Village, Heswall, Wirral, Merseyside 1970's
This garage still exists today and had working pumps as recently as 2009. In that last era the pumps were seemingly unbranded - but gone altogether a bit later on. See here 2009 with pump www.google.com/maps/@53.3225017,-3.1022455,3a,75y,213.55h...
and then by 2017 the pumps seems to have gone www.google.com/maps/@53.3224846,-3.1022353,3a,75y,201.45h...
This is a scan of a postcard - the postcard was sent in 1982 (when a 2nd class ordinary stamp was 12 1/2 p) as is the stamp on this postcard. I'm guessing the photo was probably taken a year or two earlier. Here's the same view today www.google.com/maps/@53.3222674,-3.1019358,3a,75y,311.87h...