Matchbox Label Selection Northern
Here's another matchbox label selection. Quite an interesting one, especially the top left image, which if it is believed to be an accurate representation, would be a very rare sight of an Ace branded petrol station. Ace was certainly a brand of petrol but the logo/sign that appears on Dan Lockton's webpage of petrol brands suggests it did not look like it does here. In truth it looks more like the Club logo, although that brand came later. Certainly it would seem the garage was eventually Total branded but was demolished in about 2014 to make way for a Sainsbury supermarket. If I'm right, it was situated at 80-86 Rush Green Road WA13 9PR.
maps.app.goo.gl/iymoEQYNPEu5LsudA
The one time Total site on Ombersley Road, Worcester no longer exists, it's now modern houses and possibly part of a Co-op, opposite an Esso forecourt which was a Texaco site a while back. Earlier on it had been an Elf site, as can be seen on the old receipt below. I suspect that receipt and the matchbox label aren't to far apart in time, both mid to late 1980s I think.
maps.app.goo.gl/nJ1WS2Yym32whcYN9
As for the Flag Service Station in Croxteth, there is an Esso site on the East Lancashire Road nearby in the present day, might well be the same place, although it was clearly BP for a while.
maps.app.goo.gl/ZZrzjhheTtaMc6GP8
Bottom left is the Ferrybridge Service Station. There is still an Esso forecourt on Pontefract Road more or less in Ferrybridge which might be the same place.
As with the previous one, it was a different brand in an earlier Streetview shot, this time Texaco, and Jet in another, but that's not to say it wouldn't have been Esso in the 1980s for example. Richard has lots of photos of it as Texaco, Jet and Esso, added below.
maps.app.goo.gl/qh57DmLrNhzTeXmi7
Tracey's Garage is still there in the present day and still a Shell site.
maps.app.goo.gl/qRXouDTXH7zRAazt7
Minsterley Garage is also still there in the present day, now a Texaco which it may or may not have been in the artist's depiction of the forecourt, looks entirely plausible that it could have been.
maps.app.goo.gl/zGWNyQ91irf3P3D6A
Matchbox Label Selection Northern
Here's another matchbox label selection. Quite an interesting one, especially the top left image, which if it is believed to be an accurate representation, would be a very rare sight of an Ace branded petrol station. Ace was certainly a brand of petrol but the logo/sign that appears on Dan Lockton's webpage of petrol brands suggests it did not look like it does here. In truth it looks more like the Club logo, although that brand came later. Certainly it would seem the garage was eventually Total branded but was demolished in about 2014 to make way for a Sainsbury supermarket. If I'm right, it was situated at 80-86 Rush Green Road WA13 9PR.
maps.app.goo.gl/iymoEQYNPEu5LsudA
The one time Total site on Ombersley Road, Worcester no longer exists, it's now modern houses and possibly part of a Co-op, opposite an Esso forecourt which was a Texaco site a while back. Earlier on it had been an Elf site, as can be seen on the old receipt below. I suspect that receipt and the matchbox label aren't to far apart in time, both mid to late 1980s I think.
maps.app.goo.gl/nJ1WS2Yym32whcYN9
As for the Flag Service Station in Croxteth, there is an Esso site on the East Lancashire Road nearby in the present day, might well be the same place, although it was clearly BP for a while.
maps.app.goo.gl/ZZrzjhheTtaMc6GP8
Bottom left is the Ferrybridge Service Station. There is still an Esso forecourt on Pontefract Road more or less in Ferrybridge which might be the same place.
As with the previous one, it was a different brand in an earlier Streetview shot, this time Texaco, and Jet in another, but that's not to say it wouldn't have been Esso in the 1980s for example. Richard has lots of photos of it as Texaco, Jet and Esso, added below.
maps.app.goo.gl/qh57DmLrNhzTeXmi7
Tracey's Garage is still there in the present day and still a Shell site.
maps.app.goo.gl/qRXouDTXH7zRAazt7
Minsterley Garage is also still there in the present day, now a Texaco which it may or may not have been in the artist's depiction of the forecourt, looks entirely plausible that it could have been.
maps.app.goo.gl/zGWNyQ91irf3P3D6A