Ultraspar - Repps Service Station, Repps with Bastwick, Norfolk 1985
The rare as anything Ultraspar garage. It's not a modern phenomenon for a supermarket brand to team up with a petrol brand - back in the 80's Ultramar teamed up with Spar to create the Ultraspar brand. It was one of the earlier examples of the convenience store blended with filling station. I've waited to post this one until I had been to the same place and taken photos of it now as a Murco station. In fact it has undergone a number of re-brands or renovations in its lifetime. Whatgas.com has it listed as a Q8 which makes sense as it was they who bought out Ultramar's British downstream operations - and Google maps shows it as a Power garage in 2009 switching to Murco between 2012 and 2015. Even then it was given the new Murco livery quite recently so that's at least five different liveries in the last 33 years. Quite recently the far end of the shop has been turned into a house. www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.7026431,1.5872181,3a,75y,270h,8...
Ultraspar - Repps Service Station, Repps with Bastwick, Norfolk 1985
The rare as anything Ultraspar garage. It's not a modern phenomenon for a supermarket brand to team up with a petrol brand - back in the 80's Ultramar teamed up with Spar to create the Ultraspar brand. It was one of the earlier examples of the convenience store blended with filling station. I've waited to post this one until I had been to the same place and taken photos of it now as a Murco station. In fact it has undergone a number of re-brands or renovations in its lifetime. Whatgas.com has it listed as a Q8 which makes sense as it was they who bought out Ultramar's British downstream operations - and Google maps shows it as a Power garage in 2009 switching to Murco between 2012 and 2015. Even then it was given the new Murco livery quite recently so that's at least five different liveries in the last 33 years. Quite recently the far end of the shop has been turned into a house. www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.7026431,1.5872181,3a,75y,270h,8...