Multiple Brands - Keeping and Son, High Street, Milford on Sea, Hampshire 1930's
Amazingly there's still a garage on this site today - Harfield Motor Services although no petrol has been sold for a long time by the looks of things. Back to the old photo and Keeping and Sons as it was then were Morris dealers and were selling a variety of brands including Cleveland and National Benzole. The globe next to the obvious Cleveland one might be Cleveland or Fina - hard to tell - if they were selling Fina it would suggest a date of about 1957 at the very earliest as for the few years before that Fina was sold under the name Citex - but if Cleveland then could be pre-war. The remaining globes on the far side are too difficult to make out what brands are on offer. On balance I think that 1957 is a bit too late for this photo so have amended the main caption accordingly. The overall scene is remarkably unchanged to the present day www.google.com/maps/@50.7254563,-1.59119,3a,75y,65.17h,95...
Multiple Brands - Keeping and Son, High Street, Milford on Sea, Hampshire 1930's
Amazingly there's still a garage on this site today - Harfield Motor Services although no petrol has been sold for a long time by the looks of things. Back to the old photo and Keeping and Sons as it was then were Morris dealers and were selling a variety of brands including Cleveland and National Benzole. The globe next to the obvious Cleveland one might be Cleveland or Fina - hard to tell - if they were selling Fina it would suggest a date of about 1957 at the very earliest as for the few years before that Fina was sold under the name Citex - but if Cleveland then could be pre-war. The remaining globes on the far side are too difficult to make out what brands are on offer. On balance I think that 1957 is a bit too late for this photo so have amended the main caption accordingly. The overall scene is remarkably unchanged to the present day www.google.com/maps/@50.7254563,-1.59119,3a,75y,65.17h,95...