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Multiple Brands - Piercy End, Kirbymoorside, North Yorkshire 1950's

Here's a really lovely old photo to mark the 500th vintage garage photo/postcard I have uploaded. Amazingly this business still exists today; established in 1946 Ryedale Garage still trades today although the original small site has expanded rather subsequently. The same view today is rather different as various larger buildings have been erected compared to the original charming premises with kerbside pumps. Here is the same view today showing the same houses in the distance. www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.2668144,-0.9304955,3a,90y,313.2... A little further down the road on the other side is a quaint petrol forecourt shown here which has to compete with a large Jet forecourt just round the corner. www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.2671879,-0.9305732,3a,75y,37.8h... and the full extent of Ryedale Garages today can be seen here www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.2664478,-0.9306629,3a,75y,332.4... and here www.google.co.uk/maps/@54.2665684,-0.9305289,3a,75y,90h,9...

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Uploaded on November 21, 2018