Esso - Lobitos Tyres, Coast Road, Gwespyr, Flintshire, Wales CH8 9JS 4
It's surely too much of a coincidence for this forecourt and tyre fitters being called Lobitos Tyres for it not to have some connection with the fuel brand bought out by Burmah back in the 1960s. I'm wondering if there was once a fuel depot here or a small refinery or something like that. Lobitos was a town in Peru turned more or less into a bespoke fuel exporting place.
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It may even just be that this was once a Lobitos branded site and became known by locals as the Lobitos Garage. It gets even weirder when one looks at the earliest Streetview shot from 2009. At one end of the site is the same Esso logo seen here , but at the other end is an older Esso sign and price board converted to read Lobitos in an otherwise unchanged logo. That sign had gone by 2011.
Esso - Lobitos Tyres, Coast Road, Gwespyr, Flintshire, Wales CH8 9JS 4
It's surely too much of a coincidence for this forecourt and tyre fitters being called Lobitos Tyres for it not to have some connection with the fuel brand bought out by Burmah back in the 1960s. I'm wondering if there was once a fuel depot here or a small refinery or something like that. Lobitos was a town in Peru turned more or less into a bespoke fuel exporting place.
You can read more here
surfinglobitos.wordpress.com/about/context/
It may even just be that this was once a Lobitos branded site and became known by locals as the Lobitos Garage. It gets even weirder when one looks at the earliest Streetview shot from 2009. At one end of the site is the same Esso logo seen here , but at the other end is an older Esso sign and price board converted to read Lobitos in an otherwise unchanged logo. That sign had gone by 2011.