Murco - Between Towns Road, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire 2nd December 1983
Here's an image that looks much older than it actually is. However there are tiny clues as to the true date of the photo. The chap filling up is in trainers of a type not seen before the 1980s, and the request to buy at least £10 worth of fuel if paying by cheque only makes sense if the date is 1983 or thereabouts. A few years earlier and you'd have to fill up an empty tank to do that. Here it's about five and half gallons which seems reasonable, about half a tank. As for the garage here, it was a long term Murco site, it was still there up to 2014 but then became a hand car wash for a few years. By 2017 it had been demolished and now an ugly big block of flats resides where this filling station once did. There was a second petrol station in Between Towns Road at the other end on the other side, that was once an Esso site and a photo of that will follow at some point.
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Murco - Between Towns Road, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire 2nd December 1983
Here's an image that looks much older than it actually is. However there are tiny clues as to the true date of the photo. The chap filling up is in trainers of a type not seen before the 1980s, and the request to buy at least £10 worth of fuel if paying by cheque only makes sense if the date is 1983 or thereabouts. A few years earlier and you'd have to fill up an empty tank to do that. Here it's about five and half gallons which seems reasonable, about half a tank. As for the garage here, it was a long term Murco site, it was still there up to 2014 but then became a hand car wash for a few years. By 2017 it had been demolished and now an ugly big block of flats resides where this filling station once did. There was a second petrol station in Between Towns Road at the other end on the other side, that was once an Esso site and a photo of that will follow at some point.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7327347,-1.2147647,3a,75y,17.47...