Shell - Old Mews Garage, Redditch Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B38 8RN 24th June 1958
This place has just about survived to the present day although it has spent all of the Streetview era as a hand car wash. From that view we can see it eventually gained a canopy and much of the site was redeveloped but certain features remain to the present day including the big sign for Old Mews Garage on the end wall of the house (although the house doesn't - looks like one or two were demolished to expand the site in time) now an advertising billboard. The site was divided up too as the far side shows a tyre business still operating in the end building. Have to say it looked so much better in 1958 than it does now - that's not me looking back with rose tinted glasses, more that I really can't stand the visual impact of the hand car wash! I have another photo of this place from some years earlier which will get posted at some point when it hadn't yet become a Shell solus site - it was then selling Cleveland predominantly. Now posted - see below.
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Shell - Old Mews Garage, Redditch Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B38 8RN 24th June 1958
This place has just about survived to the present day although it has spent all of the Streetview era as a hand car wash. From that view we can see it eventually gained a canopy and much of the site was redeveloped but certain features remain to the present day including the big sign for Old Mews Garage on the end wall of the house (although the house doesn't - looks like one or two were demolished to expand the site in time) now an advertising billboard. The site was divided up too as the far side shows a tyre business still operating in the end building. Have to say it looked so much better in 1958 than it does now - that's not me looking back with rose tinted glasses, more that I really can't stand the visual impact of the hand car wash! I have another photo of this place from some years earlier which will get posted at some point when it hadn't yet become a Shell solus site - it was then selling Cleveland predominantly. Now posted - see below.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4064698,-1.9284141,3a,75y,93.25...