Esso - Oxpens Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire 11th September 2000
The petrol station here disappeared precisely between July 2015 and September 2016. In July 2015 it was there and operating, by September 2016 nothing was left, just a barren site awaiting redevelopment. Since then nothing has happened and the site is now overgrown with bushes and small trees, so I'm guessing site contamination would be the reason for the delay. It does seem a bit mad that a perfectly good service station could be removed in this way and razed to the ground only for nothing more to happen.
Here in September 2000 it was a busy and thriving site with cars queuing to buy fuel, presumably due to the shortages in that precise point in time.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7499354,-1.2664778,3a,75y,288.8...
Esso - Oxpens Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire 11th September 2000
The petrol station here disappeared precisely between July 2015 and September 2016. In July 2015 it was there and operating, by September 2016 nothing was left, just a barren site awaiting redevelopment. Since then nothing has happened and the site is now overgrown with bushes and small trees, so I'm guessing site contamination would be the reason for the delay. It does seem a bit mad that a perfectly good service station could be removed in this way and razed to the ground only for nothing more to happen.
Here in September 2000 it was a busy and thriving site with cars queuing to buy fuel, presumably due to the shortages in that precise point in time.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.7499354,-1.2664778,3a,75y,288.8...