Multiple Brands - JP Pollards Garage, Porlock, Somerset circa 1932 1
Here we see a Hillman being attended to at JP Pollard's garage in Porlock, Somerset. This must be really quite an old image as I have another picture of their garage from not much later on, maybe ten years at most, by which time they had moved about fifty yards down the road. The premises shown here is today Myrtle Cottage looking remarkably the same. Sadly after what might well have been over a hundred years in the High Street at these two locations, their garage stopped selling petrol just a few years ago. In the last iteration it was a Pace branded site, prior to that a Flare branded site with no pole sign, just a little floor sign indicating as such. Here we see them selling Shell, National Benzole and Pratts Commercial. So we are certainly no later than 1934 or it would have been Esso. I think though this more likely to be late 1920s or perhaps very early 1930s. Someone who knows more about the history of Hillman cars might be able to say when this model was first produced.
Below you can see their later premises, both in the 1930s and in close to the present day, after it had stopped dispensing petrol. In addition another old image from Andrew Dally from slightly further away, but a less good quality photo! On Streetview you can see this place, Myrtle Cottage, as it looks today
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2090665,-3.5977705,3a,75y,358.3...
and their later premises when selling Flare petrol here
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.208608,-3.596271,3a,75y,343.08h...
Multiple Brands - JP Pollards Garage, Porlock, Somerset circa 1932 1
Here we see a Hillman being attended to at JP Pollard's garage in Porlock, Somerset. This must be really quite an old image as I have another picture of their garage from not much later on, maybe ten years at most, by which time they had moved about fifty yards down the road. The premises shown here is today Myrtle Cottage looking remarkably the same. Sadly after what might well have been over a hundred years in the High Street at these two locations, their garage stopped selling petrol just a few years ago. In the last iteration it was a Pace branded site, prior to that a Flare branded site with no pole sign, just a little floor sign indicating as such. Here we see them selling Shell, National Benzole and Pratts Commercial. So we are certainly no later than 1934 or it would have been Esso. I think though this more likely to be late 1920s or perhaps very early 1930s. Someone who knows more about the history of Hillman cars might be able to say when this model was first produced.
Below you can see their later premises, both in the 1930s and in close to the present day, after it had stopped dispensing petrol. In addition another old image from Andrew Dally from slightly further away, but a less good quality photo! On Streetview you can see this place, Myrtle Cottage, as it looks today
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.2090665,-3.5977705,3a,75y,358.3...
and their later premises when selling Flare petrol here
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.208608,-3.596271,3a,75y,343.08h...