Rowilco - Brides Garage, 2 Prescot Road, Bowkers Green, Melling, Merseyside L39 6TA 2
Rowilco was Roland Williams and Company Ltd of Liverpool and in the past had a fair number of sites in the north west. This is believed to be the only example surviving and way beyond it's life expectancy! I'm not sure when the brand officially disappeared but it's going back a fair while. It's rather like the Phoenix branded site in Whittlesey that Ian Calvert posted yesterday and one I have photographed on several occasions over the years. Shouldn't still exist but does!
Looking through the various Streetview shots it's clear the garage here had new pumps only a few years ago, some time between 2019 and 2021, so it's still a working garage - although Google has it listed as permanently closed.
As this was the last surviving example of this pole sign it was important for me to get a photo or two of the logo in close up, I might be the only person who has done that. Below I'll link to the only other example I have of a petrol station selling Rowilco, in tandem with Jet, in Liverpool in the late 1960s. also some earlier Rowilco globes photographed at the Lakeside Motor Museum in Cumbria.
Rowilco - Brides Garage, 2 Prescot Road, Bowkers Green, Melling, Merseyside L39 6TA 2
Rowilco was Roland Williams and Company Ltd of Liverpool and in the past had a fair number of sites in the north west. This is believed to be the only example surviving and way beyond it's life expectancy! I'm not sure when the brand officially disappeared but it's going back a fair while. It's rather like the Phoenix branded site in Whittlesey that Ian Calvert posted yesterday and one I have photographed on several occasions over the years. Shouldn't still exist but does!
Looking through the various Streetview shots it's clear the garage here had new pumps only a few years ago, some time between 2019 and 2021, so it's still a working garage - although Google has it listed as permanently closed.
As this was the last surviving example of this pole sign it was important for me to get a photo or two of the logo in close up, I might be the only person who has done that. Below I'll link to the only other example I have of a petrol station selling Rowilco, in tandem with Jet, in Liverpool in the late 1960s. also some earlier Rowilco globes photographed at the Lakeside Motor Museum in Cumbria.