Heltor - ST Lane, Station Road, Lifton, Devon PL16 0AJ 2
This is a quirky little place with all the pumps bunched up on a concrete platform, I think there are four in total, but certainly three. The garage was previously Gulf branded and the earliest Streetview shots show it unbranded so presumably an independent. Lifton was once on the A30 and once had at least three petrol stations when through traffic would have been considerable, especially in the summer months. Now it's a minor road and pretty quiet. Along the road from here is a car dealership, Sky Automotive at 1 New Road, that looks like it might have been a petrol station way back in time, I'm pretty sure the earliest Streetview shot shows the footprint of a pump island and then right the other end of Lifton there was a UK site on Fore Street which I have posted before, now all gone, not a trace of the site left.
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To be honest I'm amazed this place survives but I'm very glad it does.
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Heltor - ST Lane, Station Road, Lifton, Devon PL16 0AJ 2
This is a quirky little place with all the pumps bunched up on a concrete platform, I think there are four in total, but certainly three. The garage was previously Gulf branded and the earliest Streetview shots show it unbranded so presumably an independent. Lifton was once on the A30 and once had at least three petrol stations when through traffic would have been considerable, especially in the summer months. Now it's a minor road and pretty quiet. Along the road from here is a car dealership, Sky Automotive at 1 New Road, that looks like it might have been a petrol station way back in time, I'm pretty sure the earliest Streetview shot shows the footprint of a pump island and then right the other end of Lifton there was a UK site on Fore Street which I have posted before, now all gone, not a trace of the site left.
www.flickr.com/photos/131286969@N05/50355350837/in/photol...
To be honest I'm amazed this place survives but I'm very glad it does.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.6438613,-4.2736923,3a,75y,55.68...