Multiple Brands - Bartons of Bawtry, High Street, Bawtry, Yorkshire circa 1950
Here's another old postcard of Bawtry High Street, surely one of the most photographed streets in the UK for postcards! This is the fourth I have obtained along with one old slide, and most seem to feature the garage we see here on the right. Despite it being unclear it must be Bartons garage as I know for a fact it was earlier than this and later than this! This image must date from the early 1950s, the garage is still selling a variety of brands, but it's mainly the vehicles that to me suggest it is post war rather than pre-war. The oldest image I have of this garage is from the early 1930s when they were selling Pratts among other brands, but here it's Esso so after 1934 at the very earliest. I guess it might even have been taken during the war. Later on Bartons would sell Regent petrol only into the 1960s and subsequently move their premises across the road to where there was a Jet garage in the 1960s. These sites were two of at least four garages situated along this stretch of the High Street by the 1960s as seen in another of the old postcards I have. All of them are added below in chronological order.
The garage seen here is now occupied by an opticians!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4294117,-1.0209832,3a,75y,56.29...
Multiple Brands - Bartons of Bawtry, High Street, Bawtry, Yorkshire circa 1950
Here's another old postcard of Bawtry High Street, surely one of the most photographed streets in the UK for postcards! This is the fourth I have obtained along with one old slide, and most seem to feature the garage we see here on the right. Despite it being unclear it must be Bartons garage as I know for a fact it was earlier than this and later than this! This image must date from the early 1950s, the garage is still selling a variety of brands, but it's mainly the vehicles that to me suggest it is post war rather than pre-war. The oldest image I have of this garage is from the early 1930s when they were selling Pratts among other brands, but here it's Esso so after 1934 at the very earliest. I guess it might even have been taken during the war. Later on Bartons would sell Regent petrol only into the 1960s and subsequently move their premises across the road to where there was a Jet garage in the 1960s. These sites were two of at least four garages situated along this stretch of the High Street by the 1960s as seen in another of the old postcards I have. All of them are added below in chronological order.
The garage seen here is now occupied by an opticians!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4294117,-1.0209832,3a,75y,56.29...