Cleveland & National Benzole - King's Arms Garage, Banbury Road Grove Street Junction, Oxford, Oxfordshire circa 1960 2
This is a wonderful image with some lovely stand out features. The architecture of the house is very pleasing on the eye with it’s centrally mounted clock above the entrance and roof windows with a church like quality. They were selling Commer and Hillman vehicles and the site had the plain and simple Cleveland sign of the era. Interesting that they had National Benzole, presumably as a guest brand by this era. On the opposite corner was the Kings Arms public house, now the Dancing Dragon Bar and Restaurant. The King’s Arms Garage survived just into the 21st century before being demolished to make way for modern housing. In between it was totally rebuilt in the 1960s into a much more modern premises under the name GW Salters whilst retaining its Cleveland branding and by then having a Rootes dealership.
Here’s the same view in the present day.
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Cleveland & National Benzole - King's Arms Garage, Banbury Road Grove Street Junction, Oxford, Oxfordshire circa 1960 2
This is a wonderful image with some lovely stand out features. The architecture of the house is very pleasing on the eye with it’s centrally mounted clock above the entrance and roof windows with a church like quality. They were selling Commer and Hillman vehicles and the site had the plain and simple Cleveland sign of the era. Interesting that they had National Benzole, presumably as a guest brand by this era. On the opposite corner was the Kings Arms public house, now the Dancing Dragon Bar and Restaurant. The King’s Arms Garage survived just into the 21st century before being demolished to make way for modern housing. In between it was totally rebuilt in the 1960s into a much more modern premises under the name GW Salters whilst retaining its Cleveland branding and by then having a Rootes dealership.
Here’s the same view in the present day.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7802159,-1.2660238,3a,75y,272.4...