Anglo - Ashcroft Service Station, St Helens, Lancashire 1993 1
This photo is easy to know the date as it appears on the photo itself - 2nd March 1993 - and checking the price of four star in that era corroborates the date. Nice to see a Repsol branded tanker making delivery to the site in this photo - Repsol were the owners of the Anglo brand for quite some time through the 1990's. Carless Petroleum were the original owners of the brand but sold to Repsol in 1991 - they kept the brand going up to 2000 when the Anglo part of their company was sold. Theoretically there was a third owner of Anglo after Repsol but despite an image existing for the new logo on Anglo's own website, not one site ever got switched to that livery as far as is known but it took until 2015 for the company to be officially dissolved.
This garage still exists today - there have been a few changes of brand over recent years - Google Streetview shows this as an independent branded ASS in April 2009 - presumably standing for Ashcroft Service Station. www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4525119,-2.7185738,3a,75y,303.7... By 2016 it was branded as Pace www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4525253,-2.7185584,3a,75y,303.7... and by 2018 branded as Gulf www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4525214,-2.7185925,3a,75y,303.7... that change having happened in the last year or so. Other information gleaned from Google includes a story that there was an armed robbery here in March 2018 and that the garage has reasonably good ratings from customers reviews - 3.5 out of 5 over 27 reviews and a food hygiene rating of 4/5!
Anglo - Ashcroft Service Station, St Helens, Lancashire 1993 1
This photo is easy to know the date as it appears on the photo itself - 2nd March 1993 - and checking the price of four star in that era corroborates the date. Nice to see a Repsol branded tanker making delivery to the site in this photo - Repsol were the owners of the Anglo brand for quite some time through the 1990's. Carless Petroleum were the original owners of the brand but sold to Repsol in 1991 - they kept the brand going up to 2000 when the Anglo part of their company was sold. Theoretically there was a third owner of Anglo after Repsol but despite an image existing for the new logo on Anglo's own website, not one site ever got switched to that livery as far as is known but it took until 2015 for the company to be officially dissolved.
This garage still exists today - there have been a few changes of brand over recent years - Google Streetview shows this as an independent branded ASS in April 2009 - presumably standing for Ashcroft Service Station. www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4525119,-2.7185738,3a,75y,303.7... By 2016 it was branded as Pace www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4525253,-2.7185584,3a,75y,303.7... and by 2018 branded as Gulf www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4525214,-2.7185925,3a,75y,303.7... that change having happened in the last year or so. Other information gleaned from Google includes a story that there was an armed robbery here in March 2018 and that the garage has reasonably good ratings from customers reviews - 3.5 out of 5 over 27 reviews and a food hygiene rating of 4/5!