Esso - 16 - 18 Rockingham Road, Swinton, South Yorkshire S64 8ED circa 1970
The Esso forecourt we see here almost lasted into the Streetview era, the earliest shot shows it just demolished to make way for some pretty bland modern housing. Here in 1970 or thereabouts we see a standard smaller scale Esso site, although looking at the area encompassing the demolished building it clearly wasn't quite so small. It may be the site was re-built some time between this photo and the earliest Streetview.
It is hard to see quite why this postcard was every produced in the first place, not just because of the Esso petrol station which is hardly beautiful by most people's standards, but the remaining content is far from spectacular either! A shopping centre which isn't even a shopping centre and the Kings Head public house not really anything to get the pulse racing. Maybe by Swinton's standards in this era, this was something to behold!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4875719,-1.3279936,3a,75y,27.78...
Esso - 16 - 18 Rockingham Road, Swinton, South Yorkshire S64 8ED circa 1970
The Esso forecourt we see here almost lasted into the Streetview era, the earliest shot shows it just demolished to make way for some pretty bland modern housing. Here in 1970 or thereabouts we see a standard smaller scale Esso site, although looking at the area encompassing the demolished building it clearly wasn't quite so small. It may be the site was re-built some time between this photo and the earliest Streetview.
It is hard to see quite why this postcard was every produced in the first place, not just because of the Esso petrol station which is hardly beautiful by most people's standards, but the remaining content is far from spectacular either! A shopping centre which isn't even a shopping centre and the Kings Head public house not really anything to get the pulse racing. Maybe by Swinton's standards in this era, this was something to behold!
www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.4875719,-1.3279936,3a,75y,27.78...