Esso - Turnpike Filling Station Exeter Road, Chard, Somerset 1960s
The buildings still remain today although their purpose has changed a bit. All signs of the forecourt have gone - just grass now but that's better than new houses or something worse! There's a holiday park situated behind what was the cafe and filling station and I imagine the buildings are now used for administration of this holiday park. Here's the same scene today on Street View www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8807968,-3.0285071,3a,75y,127.1...
Esso - Turnpike Filling Station Exeter Road, Chard, Somerset 1960s
The buildings still remain today although their purpose has changed a bit. All signs of the forecourt have gone - just grass now but that's better than new houses or something worse! There's a holiday park situated behind what was the cafe and filling station and I imagine the buildings are now used for administration of this holiday park. Here's the same scene today on Street View www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8807968,-3.0285071,3a,75y,127.1...