Bulldog - Anglia Garage Services, Albert Road, Braintree, Essex CM7 3JQ 1989 3
This is the earliest image I have of this garage in Albert Road, Braintree. Here branded Bulldog and under the trading name of Anglia Garage Services it would very soon go on to be branded Little David and some time after become Vigar Motors instead of Anglia Garage Services, either due to new ownership or a change of trading name. By the time the name change had occurred, the pumps had been replaced but here they are some older I think Tokheim pumps - later they would be Dunclares.
The garage still exists in the present day, although fuel sales ended quite some time ago, and certainly before Streetview first visited, but it is almost certain that Little David was the last brand of petrol sold here as the frame and sign of the Little David pole sign still stands to the present day.
I guess the BMW would have been considered quite a grand car in this era, and its plate maybe a personalised one?
Here's the same view in the near present day; a photo I took a couple of years ago is added below as well.
Bulldog - Anglia Garage Services, Albert Road, Braintree, Essex CM7 3JQ 1989 3
This is the earliest image I have of this garage in Albert Road, Braintree. Here branded Bulldog and under the trading name of Anglia Garage Services it would very soon go on to be branded Little David and some time after become Vigar Motors instead of Anglia Garage Services, either due to new ownership or a change of trading name. By the time the name change had occurred, the pumps had been replaced but here they are some older I think Tokheim pumps - later they would be Dunclares.
The garage still exists in the present day, although fuel sales ended quite some time ago, and certainly before Streetview first visited, but it is almost certain that Little David was the last brand of petrol sold here as the frame and sign of the Little David pole sign still stands to the present day.
I guess the BMW would have been considered quite a grand car in this era, and its plate maybe a personalised one?
Here's the same view in the near present day; a photo I took a couple of years ago is added below as well.