Multiple Brands - 39 Oxford Road, Stone, Buckinghamshire HP17 8PD circa 1932
This is a strange image! Clearly it's some kind of a parade but why are all the kids wearing "cone-head" hats. Why is there a tiny aeroplane leading them down the road. The banner reads something like Welcome the Bishopstone Wednesday Brigade, it might be a different day of the week but I think it's Wednesday. It's really hard to explain, except that, for anyone who has seen the film Arcadia, this sort of thing was commonplace in more rural parts of the country in this era.
Anyway, on to the garage in the background. Here seen selling a variety of brands as pretty much all garages did in this era, this one has Shell, National Benzole, Esso Ethyl and I think Cleveland along with the more prominently mentioned Dominion. The Wagon and Horses pub in the foreground is still there, now Raj Bhuj Indian restaurant and the garage survives too, one of a tiny number of Spot branded sites in the present day. Clearly the garage has been modernised, probably several times over the last ninety plus years, but overall the scene is little changed given the pub is still there, just in a different colour scheme now, and the garage still exists too. These days no children in pointy hats though!
You can see it below as it looks in the near present day.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8040745,-0.8584836,3a,66.5y,128...
Multiple Brands - 39 Oxford Road, Stone, Buckinghamshire HP17 8PD circa 1932
This is a strange image! Clearly it's some kind of a parade but why are all the kids wearing "cone-head" hats. Why is there a tiny aeroplane leading them down the road. The banner reads something like Welcome the Bishopstone Wednesday Brigade, it might be a different day of the week but I think it's Wednesday. It's really hard to explain, except that, for anyone who has seen the film Arcadia, this sort of thing was commonplace in more rural parts of the country in this era.
Anyway, on to the garage in the background. Here seen selling a variety of brands as pretty much all garages did in this era, this one has Shell, National Benzole, Esso Ethyl and I think Cleveland along with the more prominently mentioned Dominion. The Wagon and Horses pub in the foreground is still there, now Raj Bhuj Indian restaurant and the garage survives too, one of a tiny number of Spot branded sites in the present day. Clearly the garage has been modernised, probably several times over the last ninety plus years, but overall the scene is little changed given the pub is still there, just in a different colour scheme now, and the garage still exists too. These days no children in pointy hats though!
You can see it below as it looks in the near present day.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8040745,-0.8584836,3a,66.5y,128...