Former Petrol Station - Smith's Garage, Ditchingham Dam, Ditchingham, Bungay, Suffolk 2
This place was once a Texaco garage and Spottedlaurel captured it in its death throes as a petrol station in October 2010 - see below. Still a busy working garage and seems to attract some higher performance cars but given its location I'm not at all surprised petrols sales ended. Ditchingham Dam is a narrow road leading out of Bungay, Streetview has it marked as a one way street but I don't think it is. Streetview also captures the garage just after its last days selling fuel in the earliest image.
It doesn't appear in the listings in the Texaco Service Station directory from the early 1990s so I can only deduce that it must have been selling some other brands back then.
I did find some really old photos of it from probably the late 1950s or early 1960s when it was a Shell BP site - see here
nicelocal.co.uk/east/autoservice/smiths_garage_ltd/
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4593001,1.4406143,3a,75y,75.04h...
Former Petrol Station - Smith's Garage, Ditchingham Dam, Ditchingham, Bungay, Suffolk 2
This place was once a Texaco garage and Spottedlaurel captured it in its death throes as a petrol station in October 2010 - see below. Still a busy working garage and seems to attract some higher performance cars but given its location I'm not at all surprised petrols sales ended. Ditchingham Dam is a narrow road leading out of Bungay, Streetview has it marked as a one way street but I don't think it is. Streetview also captures the garage just after its last days selling fuel in the earliest image.
It doesn't appear in the listings in the Texaco Service Station directory from the early 1990s so I can only deduce that it must have been selling some other brands back then.
I did find some really old photos of it from probably the late 1950s or early 1960s when it was a Shell BP site - see here
nicelocal.co.uk/east/autoservice/smiths_garage_ltd/
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4593001,1.4406143,3a,75y,75.04h...