Multiple Brands - Huishlane End, Tedburn St Mary, Devon EX6 6EB circa 1958
The pumps seen here are so close to where Fry's Garage is in the present day that it must be a much earlier iteration of the same garage but in a marginally different location. In the present day on Streetview there is a small sign saying "Fry and Son - HGV Deliveries" tucked into a small raised flowerbed outside the house here which suggests that they must own it still in the present day.
One wonders what prompted the move just down the road, but it may be the petrol sales here was the original business, a repair garage was added in the current location and then the petrol sales were moved later on.
Tedburn St Mary had two garages in the past, back in the days when this was the A30 and before it was bypassed. Fry's garage was one, and the other was Williams Garage which closed down in the late 1970s but was left largely intact for many years, such that both Dan Lockton and John Luxton have photos of it, see below.
Fry's Garage continues to the present day, lots of photos around of it as it has become quite the landmark here and featured in Clare Kendall's book The Last of the Village Pumps. I'll add one of mine below.
Looking at the most recent Streetview one can still sort of make out that there was this little forecourt here, I think the raised flowerbed was the pump island and the layout is still as it was back here in (I am guessing) the late 1950s, petrol on one pump is listed at four shillings and seven pence. There's ICA on the Shell pump so no earlier than 1954, and it's hard to imagine this place got that kind of addition straight away so 1958 maybe about right. It's very overgrown in the most recent Streetview, but earlier ones suggest maybe there was vent pipe running up the side of the porch of the next door property.
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Multiple Brands - Huishlane End, Tedburn St Mary, Devon EX6 6EB circa 1958
The pumps seen here are so close to where Fry's Garage is in the present day that it must be a much earlier iteration of the same garage but in a marginally different location. In the present day on Streetview there is a small sign saying "Fry and Son - HGV Deliveries" tucked into a small raised flowerbed outside the house here which suggests that they must own it still in the present day.
One wonders what prompted the move just down the road, but it may be the petrol sales here was the original business, a repair garage was added in the current location and then the petrol sales were moved later on.
Tedburn St Mary had two garages in the past, back in the days when this was the A30 and before it was bypassed. Fry's garage was one, and the other was Williams Garage which closed down in the late 1970s but was left largely intact for many years, such that both Dan Lockton and John Luxton have photos of it, see below.
Fry's Garage continues to the present day, lots of photos around of it as it has become quite the landmark here and featured in Clare Kendall's book The Last of the Village Pumps. I'll add one of mine below.
Looking at the most recent Streetview one can still sort of make out that there was this little forecourt here, I think the raised flowerbed was the pump island and the layout is still as it was back here in (I am guessing) the late 1950s, petrol on one pump is listed at four shillings and seven pence. There's ICA on the Shell pump so no earlier than 1954, and it's hard to imagine this place got that kind of addition straight away so 1958 maybe about right. It's very overgrown in the most recent Streetview, but earlier ones suggest maybe there was vent pipe running up the side of the porch of the next door property.
www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.7348948,-3.6812796,3a,75y,52.58...