National - Brumby Service Station, 187 Ashby Road, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire circa 1965 2
In its earlier days this site was Thomsons of Brumby and they seemed to specialise in mopeds. In those days there was just the one pump on the site, over to the left as we view here. At some point that all changed and the site became the much more standard filling station we see here. That remains the case to the present day although of course the site has been through further changes and brands, those changes so radical that it's hard to see the modern photo is the same place. In the present day and for about a decade now, it has been an Applegreen site but it was a Shell forecourt in the earliest Streetview from 2008.
The scene here is somewhat less busy than the previous one posted of this era. Just the van is on site, and one bicycle! I love the little kiosk between the pumps, a common sight in this era but almost none remain now.
Below you can see the garage as it was earlier on, the other photo i have of this era, Richard's image of it as an Applegreen but in a different livery to the one it now has which you can also see below. It is hard to understand why Applegreen use these different liveries without seemingly there being any pattern to what happens!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5761396,-0.6556575,3a,75y,268.9...
National - Brumby Service Station, 187 Ashby Road, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire circa 1965 2
In its earlier days this site was Thomsons of Brumby and they seemed to specialise in mopeds. In those days there was just the one pump on the site, over to the left as we view here. At some point that all changed and the site became the much more standard filling station we see here. That remains the case to the present day although of course the site has been through further changes and brands, those changes so radical that it's hard to see the modern photo is the same place. In the present day and for about a decade now, it has been an Applegreen site but it was a Shell forecourt in the earliest Streetview from 2008.
The scene here is somewhat less busy than the previous one posted of this era. Just the van is on site, and one bicycle! I love the little kiosk between the pumps, a common sight in this era but almost none remain now.
Below you can see the garage as it was earlier on, the other photo i have of this era, Richard's image of it as an Applegreen but in a different livery to the one it now has which you can also see below. It is hard to understand why Applegreen use these different liveries without seemingly there being any pattern to what happens!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5761396,-0.6556575,3a,75y,268.9...