WCF Chandlers - High Street, Sutton on Sea, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire LN12 2HE 5
This is another site which I visited late in the evening and then again the following morning. The dusk shots were quite moody but there's nothing like a daylight shot for showing detail. This site is slightly unusual for having a sign reading WCF Chandlers Fuels as a pose to a regular WCF sign. It had a normal WCF sign up to about four years ago. There's just the one dual fuel pump on site but I'm sure there were more in the past, probably three looking at the island.
In fact, now I bother to look for other images of this place, i see Ian Calvert posted an image of it from the 1980s when it was branded Avia and sure enough there were three pedestal pumps on the forecourt. In his photo the Avia branding is very basic and there's no actual mention of that brand name on the pole sign, in fact there's nothing on the pole sign apart from a price board, but there is an Avia sign on the building.
Richard too has a photo of the garage when it had the standard full WCF livery. Both can be seen below.
Looking for even older images it becomes clear that in Ian's 198os image, the garage had only just become Steve Wood Motors, they were established in 1984. I'm not sure who was the owner just before then, but certainly there's a very old images showing the garage was once called Youngs Garage, probably back in the 1930s. Throughout the timber frame frontage of the garage has remained.
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WCF Chandlers - High Street, Sutton on Sea, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire LN12 2HE 5
This is another site which I visited late in the evening and then again the following morning. The dusk shots were quite moody but there's nothing like a daylight shot for showing detail. This site is slightly unusual for having a sign reading WCF Chandlers Fuels as a pose to a regular WCF sign. It had a normal WCF sign up to about four years ago. There's just the one dual fuel pump on site but I'm sure there were more in the past, probably three looking at the island.
In fact, now I bother to look for other images of this place, i see Ian Calvert posted an image of it from the 1980s when it was branded Avia and sure enough there were three pedestal pumps on the forecourt. In his photo the Avia branding is very basic and there's no actual mention of that brand name on the pole sign, in fact there's nothing on the pole sign apart from a price board, but there is an Avia sign on the building.
Richard too has a photo of the garage when it had the standard full WCF livery. Both can be seen below.
Looking for even older images it becomes clear that in Ian's 198os image, the garage had only just become Steve Wood Motors, they were established in 1984. I'm not sure who was the owner just before then, but certainly there's a very old images showing the garage was once called Youngs Garage, probably back in the 1930s. Throughout the timber frame frontage of the garage has remained.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.3123621,0.2802014,3a,75y,278.57...