Shell (and National) - Mount Pleasant Filling Station, 3 Mount Pleasant, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside 5th April 1967
If ever there was a photo that one could use the expression "the more you look, the more you see" then this would be it. This is an amazing view with so many details on show. The photo was taken to mark the completion of the Roman Catholic Cathedral seen in the distance here, but happily it allows us to view three different petrol outlets at the same time.
"Bringing more than a touch of modernity to religion as it dominates the everyday scene is the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. Soaring to 300 feet, it is built from modern material, pre-cast concrete blocks reinforced with steel. It has been described as the cathedral with the space age look.
The scene around it will vastly change as the cathedral grows old, for it has been built to last at least 500 years.
Consecration is planned for Sunday 14th May and afterwards religious celebrations will last a week"
Of course the star of the show for me is the wonderful Mount Pleasant Filling Station operated by Charles Garages. In period Shell livery and with prominent Hertz rental signs, it is a lovely example of late 1960s service stations. Having found time to do a little more research I can confirm that this Charles Garage was officially 3 Mount Pleasant and they had a second outlet in Breck Road, the Breck Filling Station. Just down the road we see a second Shell sign suggesting nearby was another forecourt attached to that garage, difficult to make out its name, and then a bit further away still is a National branded forecourt under the name Automart. My 1950s RAC guidebook to all night petrol stations lists Voss Motors Ltd at an Adelphi Garage which must be the other Shell site we see here.
There are so many other details to observe too, the assorted old billboard adverts including at least three for tobacco products, the Golden Virginia one really clear, the more distant one for Sterling I think and over to the right one for Players No.6. There's also one for Kelloggs cornflakes! There's been an incident, a bus has gone into the back of a box van which in turn may have struck the car ahead. I'm sure others will spot many other details, including so many different models of car to identify and a veritable procession of buses in the foreground!
Of course none of the garages exist in the present day, all three are gone.
Here's sort of the same view in the present day, can't get the elevation on Streetview of course!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4050531,-2.9776695,3a,75y,86.6h...
Shell (and National) - Mount Pleasant Filling Station, 3 Mount Pleasant, Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, Merseyside 5th April 1967
If ever there was a photo that one could use the expression "the more you look, the more you see" then this would be it. This is an amazing view with so many details on show. The photo was taken to mark the completion of the Roman Catholic Cathedral seen in the distance here, but happily it allows us to view three different petrol outlets at the same time.
"Bringing more than a touch of modernity to religion as it dominates the everyday scene is the new Roman Catholic Cathedral of Christ the King in Liverpool. Soaring to 300 feet, it is built from modern material, pre-cast concrete blocks reinforced with steel. It has been described as the cathedral with the space age look.
The scene around it will vastly change as the cathedral grows old, for it has been built to last at least 500 years.
Consecration is planned for Sunday 14th May and afterwards religious celebrations will last a week"
Of course the star of the show for me is the wonderful Mount Pleasant Filling Station operated by Charles Garages. In period Shell livery and with prominent Hertz rental signs, it is a lovely example of late 1960s service stations. Having found time to do a little more research I can confirm that this Charles Garage was officially 3 Mount Pleasant and they had a second outlet in Breck Road, the Breck Filling Station. Just down the road we see a second Shell sign suggesting nearby was another forecourt attached to that garage, difficult to make out its name, and then a bit further away still is a National branded forecourt under the name Automart. My 1950s RAC guidebook to all night petrol stations lists Voss Motors Ltd at an Adelphi Garage which must be the other Shell site we see here.
There are so many other details to observe too, the assorted old billboard adverts including at least three for tobacco products, the Golden Virginia one really clear, the more distant one for Sterling I think and over to the right one for Players No.6. There's also one for Kelloggs cornflakes! There's been an incident, a bus has gone into the back of a box van which in turn may have struck the car ahead. I'm sure others will spot many other details, including so many different models of car to identify and a veritable procession of buses in the foreground!
Of course none of the garages exist in the present day, all three are gone.
Here's sort of the same view in the present day, can't get the elevation on Streetview of course!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4050531,-2.9776695,3a,75y,86.6h...