Multiple Brands - F Barrett, Town Street, Thaxted, Essex late 1930s
Thaxted is one of England's prettiest towns - this view remains almost unchanged to the present day. The garage as was is now a furniture restoration workshop but back in even earlier days it started off as a cycle repairs shop. The nearer pump we can see the Shell globe clearly but the further one it's hard to be sure. It looks kind of Esso shaped but there's no logo clear on it. If it is an Esso globe then it automatically makes the photo no earlier than 1935 and allowing for the time taken for a semi rural place like this to catch up to the change of Pratts to Esso so maybe around 1936 to 1939. Here's the same view in the near present day www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9533844,0.3443975,3a,75y,277.85...
Multiple Brands - F Barrett, Town Street, Thaxted, Essex late 1930s
Thaxted is one of England's prettiest towns - this view remains almost unchanged to the present day. The garage as was is now a furniture restoration workshop but back in even earlier days it started off as a cycle repairs shop. The nearer pump we can see the Shell globe clearly but the further one it's hard to be sure. It looks kind of Esso shaped but there's no logo clear on it. If it is an Esso globe then it automatically makes the photo no earlier than 1935 and allowing for the time taken for a semi rural place like this to catch up to the change of Pratts to Esso so maybe around 1936 to 1939. Here's the same view in the near present day www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.9533844,0.3443975,3a,75y,277.85...