Multiple Brands - The Green, Main Road, Upper Broughton, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE14 3BG circa 1950
This is clearly a colourised old image, but it's been done quite nicely. In the modern view it seems so unlikely that a place like this would ever have sold petrol. I think the pumps were definitely part of the shop. In this image we see above the shop front a sign reading "The Country Stores - Our Motto Is Service" and that sign is still there in the most recent Streetview. It's a little hard to work out the brands on sale but I think it's Shell left, Regent middle and Essolene right. Filling up with petrol on such a tight S-bend seems mad in the present day but I imagine it was rather more quiet along here back then.
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Multiple Brands - The Green, Main Road, Upper Broughton, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire LE14 3BG circa 1950
This is clearly a colourised old image, but it's been done quite nicely. In the modern view it seems so unlikely that a place like this would ever have sold petrol. I think the pumps were definitely part of the shop. In this image we see above the shop front a sign reading "The Country Stores - Our Motto Is Service" and that sign is still there in the most recent Streetview. It's a little hard to work out the brands on sale but I think it's Shell left, Regent middle and Essolene right. Filling up with petrol on such a tight S-bend seems mad in the present day but I imagine it was rather more quiet along here back then.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.8292045,-0.9888167,3a,75y,136.7...