Cleveland - Old Mews Garage, Redditch Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B38 8RN 8th February 1952
This is the earliest image I have of this garage, the photo taken to accompany a planning application for a sign to be erected for Cleveland fuels. As you can see below, that was granted and a year later the sign was in place. Clearly it's a shame with these old photos that there is the red ink marking on them but at the same time it indicates exactly why the photo was being taken. By the end of the decade the garage had changed brand to Shell so one imagines they had to make a further planning application when that occurred.
The old Dunlop advert is great, the vast array of globes all across the site impressive and the pre-Warboys road sign also nice to see. Here the site was exclusively Cleveland fuels but by the next year along with the newly erected sign, they were selling Mobilgas too and there was a floor sign for Shell suggesting even then the eventual transition the site would make.
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 1952 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!
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Cleveland - Old Mews Garage, Redditch Road, Birmingham, West Midlands B38 8RN 8th February 1952
This is the earliest image I have of this garage, the photo taken to accompany a planning application for a sign to be erected for Cleveland fuels. As you can see below, that was granted and a year later the sign was in place. Clearly it's a shame with these old photos that there is the red ink marking on them but at the same time it indicates exactly why the photo was being taken. By the end of the decade the garage had changed brand to Shell so one imagines they had to make a further planning application when that occurred.
The old Dunlop advert is great, the vast array of globes all across the site impressive and the pre-Warboys road sign also nice to see. Here the site was exclusively Cleveland fuels but by the next year along with the newly erected sign, they were selling Mobilgas too and there was a floor sign for Shell suggesting even then the eventual transition the site would make.
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 1952 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!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.4065033,-1.92842,3a,75y,109.48h...