Multiple Brands - Pocombe Bridge Filling Station, Tedburn Road, Pocombe Bridge, Exeter, Devon EX4 2HA circa 1932
As the signpost reads, this was where the A30 crossed the B3212. The B3212 still exists and has that number in the present day, the A30 was bypassed a long time ago, and this section here is now a minor road. Incredibly the garage survived well into the Streetview era, even if it had stopped selling petrol quite some time earlier. In those last days it was Swain's Garage selling second hand cars. The garage was demolished in about 2015. By 2019 new houses occupied the site.
On the menu here in I am guessing just into the 1930s, Pratts, National Benzole and BP were on the menu. It was apparently open day and night, which seems pretty amazing for the era. Far right there seems to be what would be a rare sight of an advertising board for Texaco oils. Also of note is that the original building seen here survived right up to the point of demolition without any real change.
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Multiple Brands - Pocombe Bridge Filling Station, Tedburn Road, Pocombe Bridge, Exeter, Devon EX4 2HA circa 1932
As the signpost reads, this was where the A30 crossed the B3212. The B3212 still exists and has that number in the present day, the A30 was bypassed a long time ago, and this section here is now a minor road. Incredibly the garage survived well into the Streetview era, even if it had stopped selling petrol quite some time earlier. In those last days it was Swain's Garage selling second hand cars. The garage was demolished in about 2015. By 2019 new houses occupied the site.
On the menu here in I am guessing just into the 1930s, Pratts, National Benzole and BP were on the menu. It was apparently open day and night, which seems pretty amazing for the era. Far right there seems to be what would be a rare sight of an advertising board for Texaco oils. Also of note is that the original building seen here survived right up to the point of demolition without any real change.
maps.app.goo.gl/i3yFtmMUdQWeskjp9