BWOC - Rampisham Garage, Rampisham, Dorset DT2 0HT 3
To my surprise the garage here actually looked marginally tidier than it it did on the only other occasion I passed by here and took photos, indeed it looks tidier than in any of the Streetview images. Back then in 2018 one of the pumps was plain white and it has subsequently been given the matching BWOC livery. I was also lucky that at this time on a Sunday early evening the garage was closed and I could take a whole heap of photos without arousing suspicion! Back in 2009 this was a Minster branded site but had changed to BWOC by 2011.
I love the retro feel of the place, the neat row of Gilbarco pumps, now really quite old are laid out in a manner more common decades ago than the multi-lane forecourts most petrol stations have now. Looking closely at the canopy edge in the early Streetview shots, it's clear the garage had been branded Texaco some time earlier still. The pole sign of the era also looked like a modified Texaco one. It's not mentioned in the Texaco directory though so either it became a Texaco after the middle of the 1990s or it was already Minster branded by the early 1990s.
Overall this is a great garage, so glad it is surviving and I hope it does for many years to come!
You can see how it looked five years earlier below.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8151404,-2.6551075,3a,75y,280.2...
BWOC - Rampisham Garage, Rampisham, Dorset DT2 0HT 3
To my surprise the garage here actually looked marginally tidier than it it did on the only other occasion I passed by here and took photos, indeed it looks tidier than in any of the Streetview images. Back then in 2018 one of the pumps was plain white and it has subsequently been given the matching BWOC livery. I was also lucky that at this time on a Sunday early evening the garage was closed and I could take a whole heap of photos without arousing suspicion! Back in 2009 this was a Minster branded site but had changed to BWOC by 2011.
I love the retro feel of the place, the neat row of Gilbarco pumps, now really quite old are laid out in a manner more common decades ago than the multi-lane forecourts most petrol stations have now. Looking closely at the canopy edge in the early Streetview shots, it's clear the garage had been branded Texaco some time earlier still. The pole sign of the era also looked like a modified Texaco one. It's not mentioned in the Texaco directory though so either it became a Texaco after the middle of the 1990s or it was already Minster branded by the early 1990s.
Overall this is a great garage, so glad it is surviving and I hope it does for many years to come!
You can see how it looked five years earlier below.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8151404,-2.6551075,3a,75y,280.2...