Multiple Brands - High Street, Lee on the Solent, Hampshire circa 1950
Looking at the High Street in the present day one could hardly imagine that there was ever a petrol station in this location. It looks like the garage was called Smith Brothers and they had five pavement mounted pumps with swing booms to serve customers. There's a nice range of brands on sale too, two types of Cleveland, Esso Ethyl, Shell and National Benzole. Hard to date the photo, it might be just pre-war, maybe just after. Over to the right we see the back of a pre-Warboys roadsign. One of the buildings over to the right gives a hint of Art Deco in its construction, but those hints have since gone. The streetlighting is also quite exotic
Here's the same view in the present day.
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Multiple Brands - High Street, Lee on the Solent, Hampshire circa 1950
Looking at the High Street in the present day one could hardly imagine that there was ever a petrol station in this location. It looks like the garage was called Smith Brothers and they had five pavement mounted pumps with swing booms to serve customers. There's a nice range of brands on sale too, two types of Cleveland, Esso Ethyl, Shell and National Benzole. Hard to date the photo, it might be just pre-war, maybe just after. Over to the right we see the back of a pre-Warboys roadsign. One of the buildings over to the right gives a hint of Art Deco in its construction, but those hints have since gone. The streetlighting is also quite exotic
Here's the same view in the present day.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8026225,-1.2029845,3a,75y,124.5...