Butler - Watling Street, Clifton Upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire CV23 0AQ January 1996
This site was on a short stretch of dual carriageway on the A5 near Catthorpe and is all disappeared now but small signs of it were still visible in the earliest Streetview shot from 2009. Catthorpe was famous, indeed notorious for being the location of the once awful interchange between the A14 and the M1 and M6 - now hugely improved!
This is the only Butler site I know of which featured forecourts on both sides of the road and probably is the only one of this type there ever was. The kiosk of the near site viewed from here (we can't see it but it was there!) was still visible in 2009 whereas the main site on the far side as viewed here is still there but much changed such that one could not easily tell it was once a petrol station. Lots of metal fencing has been erected across the site and it is now home to a courier company by the looks of things. Even here in January 1996 the forecourt is looking in a poor state and the lack of canopies suggest this was not the most welcoming of sites! The presence of an older cabinet pump in blue suggests this had been converted from Fina a little earlier in time. Here's the 2009 Streetview showing the kiosk on the near site still standing
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4020838,-1.2074469,3a,75y,293.6...
and here the Streetview for the far site looking the other way
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4020838,-1.2074469,3a,75y,101.7...
Butler - Watling Street, Clifton Upon Dunsmore, Warwickshire CV23 0AQ January 1996
This site was on a short stretch of dual carriageway on the A5 near Catthorpe and is all disappeared now but small signs of it were still visible in the earliest Streetview shot from 2009. Catthorpe was famous, indeed notorious for being the location of the once awful interchange between the A14 and the M1 and M6 - now hugely improved!
This is the only Butler site I know of which featured forecourts on both sides of the road and probably is the only one of this type there ever was. The kiosk of the near site viewed from here (we can't see it but it was there!) was still visible in 2009 whereas the main site on the far side as viewed here is still there but much changed such that one could not easily tell it was once a petrol station. Lots of metal fencing has been erected across the site and it is now home to a courier company by the looks of things. Even here in January 1996 the forecourt is looking in a poor state and the lack of canopies suggest this was not the most welcoming of sites! The presence of an older cabinet pump in blue suggests this had been converted from Fina a little earlier in time. Here's the 2009 Streetview showing the kiosk on the near site still standing
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4020838,-1.2074469,3a,75y,293.6...
and here the Streetview for the far site looking the other way
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4020838,-1.2074469,3a,75y,101.7...