Shell - Chester Road, Flint, Flintshire 1960s
Even though the Shell petrol station is in the distance there's lots to appreciate in this image apart from the garage. Most obvious is the weather, this was apparently summertime or near to it, and the presence of snow and ice as well as flooding makes this seem hard to believe, at least in a modern context. Right at the front a Police car has lost its flashing sign; I don't know the correct term for it - if there is one! The Fred Dawes Radio shop is a blast from the past, wouldn't see anything like that now. There's an early Tesco supermarket in view and over to the right a large sign for Double Diamond beer, that was on what is now and may well have been then the Swan Hotel. Plenty of old cars of the era on show too, some no doubt would be struggling to keep going through lying water like that.
The Shell garage is now an Aldi supermarket and Tesco has moved over the road to a much larger premises. What was Fred Dawes is currently empty, at least in the 2022 Streetview but generally most of the buildings are the same.
Here's the same view in the near present day
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2490371,-3.1326549,3a,75y,113.0...
Shell - Chester Road, Flint, Flintshire 1960s
Even though the Shell petrol station is in the distance there's lots to appreciate in this image apart from the garage. Most obvious is the weather, this was apparently summertime or near to it, and the presence of snow and ice as well as flooding makes this seem hard to believe, at least in a modern context. Right at the front a Police car has lost its flashing sign; I don't know the correct term for it - if there is one! The Fred Dawes Radio shop is a blast from the past, wouldn't see anything like that now. There's an early Tesco supermarket in view and over to the right a large sign for Double Diamond beer, that was on what is now and may well have been then the Swan Hotel. Plenty of old cars of the era on show too, some no doubt would be struggling to keep going through lying water like that.
The Shell garage is now an Aldi supermarket and Tesco has moved over the road to a much larger premises. What was Fred Dawes is currently empty, at least in the 2022 Streetview but generally most of the buildings are the same.
Here's the same view in the near present day
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.2490371,-3.1326549,3a,75y,113.0...