Sky - M.A.N 351 - 365 Chiswick High Rd, Chiswick, London W4 4HS 1976
Well here it is - my number one photo! I have contrived it slightly to reach 2,000 older and vintage photos when posting this as well as 7,500 of garages overall. I also seem to have done so on St George's Day which wasn't planned! I am also on the verge of reaching 5 million hits to my page. I can't thank you all enough for all the interest help and support you have all shown over the last seven years.
This photo for me is truly incredible combining amazing Art Deco architecture with a rare 1970's brand of petrol and some other lovely features too. I have been almost scared to post it knowing that after doing so I might never have anything quite so amazing left to post!
Sky petrol was a cut price discounter with an interesting if relatively brief history and rather than writing a summary of it here I'll just link to Dan Lockton's fantastic old Sky advert below first comment.
It's a massive shame that these fine premises no longer exist - in its heyday this would have been a magnificent sight. It was clearly previously a BMW dealer as we can see that logo in reverse behind the M.A.N logo here. There's a touch of Abbey Road in this photo too with the zebra crossing in the foreground. It's the long hot summer of 1976, petrol is 74.5 pence a gallon and it appears to be 8.25am if the clock is right and I've read it correctly! I may be wrong but it seems rather unusual in this era for the decimal to be used in the petrol price advertised - normally fractions were still used in these days so that might be a slightly progressive move from Sky petrol. I only ever saw one Sky outlet in the flesh as it were and that was on Cambridge Heath Road in Bethnal Green and even then only out of the window of the train I was on from London Liverpool Street up to Cambridge. There must have been a fair few around London in this era though.
As for the wonderful building here - it was demolished and Harvey Nicholls currently operates from an ugly generic office block that took its place - in my opinion an absolute disgrace as I love Art Deco architecture! From the same view today we can see the zebra crossing moved just up the road a little but at least the trees have survived.
Later on, as one might have expected with Elf buying out the Sky brand, it was an Elf branded site as you can see way way down in the comments below.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4928225,-0.2717259,3a,75y,120.3...
Sky - M.A.N 351 - 365 Chiswick High Rd, Chiswick, London W4 4HS 1976
Well here it is - my number one photo! I have contrived it slightly to reach 2,000 older and vintage photos when posting this as well as 7,500 of garages overall. I also seem to have done so on St George's Day which wasn't planned! I am also on the verge of reaching 5 million hits to my page. I can't thank you all enough for all the interest help and support you have all shown over the last seven years.
This photo for me is truly incredible combining amazing Art Deco architecture with a rare 1970's brand of petrol and some other lovely features too. I have been almost scared to post it knowing that after doing so I might never have anything quite so amazing left to post!
Sky petrol was a cut price discounter with an interesting if relatively brief history and rather than writing a summary of it here I'll just link to Dan Lockton's fantastic old Sky advert below first comment.
It's a massive shame that these fine premises no longer exist - in its heyday this would have been a magnificent sight. It was clearly previously a BMW dealer as we can see that logo in reverse behind the M.A.N logo here. There's a touch of Abbey Road in this photo too with the zebra crossing in the foreground. It's the long hot summer of 1976, petrol is 74.5 pence a gallon and it appears to be 8.25am if the clock is right and I've read it correctly! I may be wrong but it seems rather unusual in this era for the decimal to be used in the petrol price advertised - normally fractions were still used in these days so that might be a slightly progressive move from Sky petrol. I only ever saw one Sky outlet in the flesh as it were and that was on Cambridge Heath Road in Bethnal Green and even then only out of the window of the train I was on from London Liverpool Street up to Cambridge. There must have been a fair few around London in this era though.
As for the wonderful building here - it was demolished and Harvey Nicholls currently operates from an ugly generic office block that took its place - in my opinion an absolute disgrace as I love Art Deco architecture! From the same view today we can see the zebra crossing moved just up the road a little but at least the trees have survived.
Later on, as one might have expected with Elf buying out the Sky brand, it was an Elf branded site as you can see way way down in the comments below.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4928225,-0.2717259,3a,75y,120.3...