Butler - Birchgrove Garage, Maes-Y-Coed Road, Birchgrove, Cardiff, South Wales CF14 4HE 1991
The Birchgrove garage still exists in the present day, but not in this location, which was pretty confusing for me at first. They moved to the location of another former Butler garage, the one time Thane and Mears at 304a Caerphilly Road, Cardiff. I knew they had to be totally different places as this garage has a canopy and Thane and Mears never did.
Sadly this site is now a hand car wash and has been throughout Streetview, the pumps removed a long time back but the canopy still stands. The garage itself still operates, now Chappell MOT and Service Centre, having earlier been a shared site with J&J Cars, as seen in the earliest Streetview from 2008.
The only other thing that is strange is that Birchgrove Garage left these premises before the earliest Streetview shot was taken in 2008, yet they only moved to the former Thane and Mears site in about 2017, so they must have had a third location in between. Google reveals no answers to this conundrum!
Butler - Birchgrove Garage, Maes-Y-Coed Road, Birchgrove, Cardiff, South Wales CF14 4HE 1991
The Birchgrove garage still exists in the present day, but not in this location, which was pretty confusing for me at first. They moved to the location of another former Butler garage, the one time Thane and Mears at 304a Caerphilly Road, Cardiff. I knew they had to be totally different places as this garage has a canopy and Thane and Mears never did.
Sadly this site is now a hand car wash and has been throughout Streetview, the pumps removed a long time back but the canopy still stands. The garage itself still operates, now Chappell MOT and Service Centre, having earlier been a shared site with J&J Cars, as seen in the earliest Streetview from 2008.
The only other thing that is strange is that Birchgrove Garage left these premises before the earliest Streetview shot was taken in 2008, yet they only moved to the former Thane and Mears site in about 2017, so they must have had a third location in between. Google reveals no answers to this conundrum!