Murco - Segsbury Motors, East Hanney Garage, East Hanney, Oxfordshire 12th September 2000
It's taken me some time to work out where this garage was. It seemed to entirely disappear not long after this photo was taken. I used the 50 mph signs, the conifer trees and the row of reflector posts in the distance to work out that the garage was where there are now some new houses forming Alfred's Place just off the A338 at the north end of East Hanney. Amazing that a garage could have gone without trace within a few years.
Here in September 2000 there was a fuel shortage hence the forecourt is empty. Can't say I remember a fuel crisis in the autumn of that year but doing a bit of quick research there clearly was
www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/23/autumn-2000-fuel...
As for the garage here in this photo, it's a very nice example of Murco branding of the era with the third iteration of their logo on the pole sign.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6373429,-1.3920257,3a,75y,55.28...
Murco - Segsbury Motors, East Hanney Garage, East Hanney, Oxfordshire 12th September 2000
It's taken me some time to work out where this garage was. It seemed to entirely disappear not long after this photo was taken. I used the 50 mph signs, the conifer trees and the row of reflector posts in the distance to work out that the garage was where there are now some new houses forming Alfred's Place just off the A338 at the north end of East Hanney. Amazing that a garage could have gone without trace within a few years.
Here in September 2000 there was a fuel shortage hence the forecourt is empty. Can't say I remember a fuel crisis in the autumn of that year but doing a bit of quick research there clearly was
www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/23/autumn-2000-fuel...
As for the garage here in this photo, it's a very nice example of Murco branding of the era with the third iteration of their logo on the pole sign.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.6373429,-1.3920257,3a,75y,55.28...