Esso - Co-operative Service Station, 234 Botley Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 0HP 15th March 1984 1
The two photos of this garage when Esso branded are dated differently by a couple of weeks, but they were surely actually taken on the same day which I would imagine was 29th February or a day or two before.
The Co-operative garage as it was here within a few years had become a Jet branded site, see below. I don't know exactly when the petrol station was demolished and replaced with a much bigger car showroom but I think either sometime in the later 1990s or early 2000s. JD Barclay, who were the occupants of this site when it became a Jet site, certainly had a very large showroom for Fiat and Lancia in the 1980s but I cannot tell if it was at this location or a different one along Botley Road. Perhaps someone out there will know.
The fine large gull-wing canopy was I am sure a Conder model, as seen in the advertisement in the comments below. Dan Lockton has a number of examples of them in his photostream too.
In the present day the now enormous buildling on this site is named after Barclay, it is New Barclay House, there is the original Barclay House in Banbury Road, which is where another JD Barclay premises once stood. More photos of the history of JD Barclay will follow in the future, they were clearly a major company once in the Oxford area.
The current occupiers of this site are Johnsons Hyundai and Mazda, but I believe (surely) that much of the building is rented office space to other organisations and companies.
Esso - Co-operative Service Station, 234 Botley Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX2 0HP 15th March 1984 1
The two photos of this garage when Esso branded are dated differently by a couple of weeks, but they were surely actually taken on the same day which I would imagine was 29th February or a day or two before.
The Co-operative garage as it was here within a few years had become a Jet branded site, see below. I don't know exactly when the petrol station was demolished and replaced with a much bigger car showroom but I think either sometime in the later 1990s or early 2000s. JD Barclay, who were the occupants of this site when it became a Jet site, certainly had a very large showroom for Fiat and Lancia in the 1980s but I cannot tell if it was at this location or a different one along Botley Road. Perhaps someone out there will know.
The fine large gull-wing canopy was I am sure a Conder model, as seen in the advertisement in the comments below. Dan Lockton has a number of examples of them in his photostream too.
In the present day the now enormous buildling on this site is named after Barclay, it is New Barclay House, there is the original Barclay House in Banbury Road, which is where another JD Barclay premises once stood. More photos of the history of JD Barclay will follow in the future, they were clearly a major company once in the Oxford area.
The current occupiers of this site are Johnsons Hyundai and Mazda, but I believe (surely) that much of the building is rented office space to other organisations and companies.