Independent - North Road, Cillibion Llanrhidian, Swansea, Wales SA3 1EB 5
This is an amazing place and well worth taking lots of photos of it! Stuck on a B road in the middle of the Gower Peninsula only my intense research allowed me to discover it actually existed! As we can see from one image and also on the earliest Streetview shots, this was branded BFL back in 2008. It had Texaco branded pumps then too, not sure if that is coincidence and they were brought in second hand or if they show the garage was a Texaco prior to the BFL era. In that particular era the canopy was stripped to just its frame, but I cannot believe it was being newly installed then, such gull-wing canopies date from the 1960s. The only other garage I have seen two adjacent in this alignment are the ones at the super retro Anglo branded garage in Walpole Cross Keys near Kings Lynn. See here
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It's great to see it still open and still selling petrol. Sadly it was closed this day as so many were due to the Queen's funeral but with up to date prices it's clearly still a going concern. Five star rated from thirteen reviews on Google, so doing some good work too. One has to say it looks far tidier and in an overall better state now that it did in 2008 which is great to see.
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Independent - North Road, Cillibion Llanrhidian, Swansea, Wales SA3 1EB 5
This is an amazing place and well worth taking lots of photos of it! Stuck on a B road in the middle of the Gower Peninsula only my intense research allowed me to discover it actually existed! As we can see from one image and also on the earliest Streetview shots, this was branded BFL back in 2008. It had Texaco branded pumps then too, not sure if that is coincidence and they were brought in second hand or if they show the garage was a Texaco prior to the BFL era. In that particular era the canopy was stripped to just its frame, but I cannot believe it was being newly installed then, such gull-wing canopies date from the 1960s. The only other garage I have seen two adjacent in this alignment are the ones at the super retro Anglo branded garage in Walpole Cross Keys near Kings Lynn. See here
www.flickr.com/photos/131286969@N05/25631046028/in/photol...
It's great to see it still open and still selling petrol. Sadly it was closed this day as so many were due to the Queen's funeral but with up to date prices it's clearly still a going concern. Five star rated from thirteen reviews on Google, so doing some good work too. One has to say it looks far tidier and in an overall better state now that it did in 2008 which is great to see.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.601956,-4.1424744,3a,75y,211.41...