Former Petrol Station - Castle Garage, Axminster, Devon EX13 5NP 5
Hard to tell on a Sunday but this place looked like it was in its death throes. Having just checked, it is apparently still open as a garage and they are still Ford specialists even if their official tie with Ford ended some time ago. I'm sure they haven't sold fuel from here for a long time, but they certainly still were in the older photos I have from 1993. The garage did get the newer Butler livery so can push that date another two or three years but I suspect by the end of the last century they had called it a day for retailing fuel. As you can see from one photo, the narrow road along which this garage is found was fenced off for building work at one end, at first I wasn't sure I'd be able to get any better photos but then I found a different way in to bypass the blockage. The near pump, now white, was a second hand Esso pump when first installed, that much is clear from the only decent Streetview shot. That suggests it was in use even more recently than I first thought as why else would they have painted it since 2016 - unless of course it is another different replacement pump of the same type, actually I think maybe it is, but in any event, they wouldn't have got it unless they intended to use it! The other two pumps are great survivors and the very same that were here in 1993. It's good to see the lovely Stymie Bold Italic lettering for Castle Garage is still there even if overall the building looks a little bare compared to its days as official Ford dealers.
Former Petrol Station - Castle Garage, Axminster, Devon EX13 5NP 5
Hard to tell on a Sunday but this place looked like it was in its death throes. Having just checked, it is apparently still open as a garage and they are still Ford specialists even if their official tie with Ford ended some time ago. I'm sure they haven't sold fuel from here for a long time, but they certainly still were in the older photos I have from 1993. The garage did get the newer Butler livery so can push that date another two or three years but I suspect by the end of the last century they had called it a day for retailing fuel. As you can see from one photo, the narrow road along which this garage is found was fenced off for building work at one end, at first I wasn't sure I'd be able to get any better photos but then I found a different way in to bypass the blockage. The near pump, now white, was a second hand Esso pump when first installed, that much is clear from the only decent Streetview shot. That suggests it was in use even more recently than I first thought as why else would they have painted it since 2016 - unless of course it is another different replacement pump of the same type, actually I think maybe it is, but in any event, they wouldn't have got it unless they intended to use it! The other two pumps are great survivors and the very same that were here in 1993. It's good to see the lovely Stymie Bold Italic lettering for Castle Garage is still there even if overall the building looks a little bare compared to its days as official Ford dealers.