Esso Pole Sign - Oxpens Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1RX 16th February 1984
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's a much earlier view of mostly the pole sign at the same service station. Nice Capri in the background! Is that a high performance Escort too, over to the right? This is in 1984 so this garage was Esso branded for a long time, quite probably a company owned site. Maybe that's why they were keen to get rid of it.
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Esso Pole Sign - Oxpens Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1RX 16th February 1984
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's a much earlier view of mostly the pole sign at the same service station. Nice Capri in the background! Is that a high performance Escort too, over to the right? This is in 1984 so this garage was Esso branded for a long time, quite probably a company owned site. Maybe that's why they were keen to get rid of it.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.750237,-1.2668198,3a,75y,209.76...