Multiple Brands - Cranmore Brothers Ltd, 467-471 Hagley Road, Bearwood, Birmingham, West Midlands mid 1950's
A lovely scene with an attendant filling up a car with National Benzole. Over to the right a Shell-BP branded tanker is there to deliver fuel to the site. Plenty of marques mentioned above the showroom display including Morris, Standard Triumph, Vauxhall, Rover, Wolseley and Austin. Even the lamp post is lovely in its design and the road sign furthest to the right is worth a look. There is still a petrol station here in the present day although it doesn't look anything like this. Part of the original garage is now a Majestic Wine outlet and the remainder is a Jet forecourt in the present day - see below. Behind what were I presume the modernised showrooms are now a fitness centre. Prior to that it was an Esso site and before that a Total site and I do wonder if even further back it may have been an Elf site.
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Multiple Brands - Cranmore Brothers Ltd, 467-471 Hagley Road, Bearwood, Birmingham, West Midlands mid 1950's
A lovely scene with an attendant filling up a car with National Benzole. Over to the right a Shell-BP branded tanker is there to deliver fuel to the site. Plenty of marques mentioned above the showroom display including Morris, Standard Triumph, Vauxhall, Rover, Wolseley and Austin. Even the lamp post is lovely in its design and the road sign furthest to the right is worth a look. There is still a petrol station here in the present day although it doesn't look anything like this. Part of the original garage is now a Majestic Wine outlet and the remainder is a Jet forecourt in the present day - see below. Behind what were I presume the modernised showrooms are now a fitness centre. Prior to that it was an Esso site and before that a Total site and I do wonder if even further back it may have been an Elf site.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4726933,-1.9672645,3a,75y,1.45h...