Stapleton Road, Bristol, 1975.
Stapleton Road, with Beaumont Street off left. Sunday 1st June 1975. 20 Carlton "Long Size" cigarettes are 37p. The board on the first building advertises Creative Decoration Signwriting and Painting around the corner at no. 6 Beaumont St, call 51218. Telephone numbers had only five digits in those days. Among the businesses which had occupied these condemned shops were, C. T. Burt; S. Baldwin, plumber; and Keith Law, wholesale fashion cash & carry. After the shops is a garage with old-fashioned petrol pumps. In my first job I used to deliver to this establishment and remember an uneven entranceway leading to a cobbled yard at the rear with ramshackle car repair workshops. Cars include a Hillman Imp, Ford Capri, Ford Corsair and two Mk I Ford Cortinas. Beyond the garage Easton Way, part of the dual-carriageway Outer Circuit Road, the rest of which was never built, has already smashed its way across Stapleton Road, severing it in to two halves and preventing the passage of traffic from one to the other. All these buildings were demolished soon afterwards.
Stapleton Road, Bristol, 1975.
Stapleton Road, with Beaumont Street off left. Sunday 1st June 1975. 20 Carlton "Long Size" cigarettes are 37p. The board on the first building advertises Creative Decoration Signwriting and Painting around the corner at no. 6 Beaumont St, call 51218. Telephone numbers had only five digits in those days. Among the businesses which had occupied these condemned shops were, C. T. Burt; S. Baldwin, plumber; and Keith Law, wholesale fashion cash & carry. After the shops is a garage with old-fashioned petrol pumps. In my first job I used to deliver to this establishment and remember an uneven entranceway leading to a cobbled yard at the rear with ramshackle car repair workshops. Cars include a Hillman Imp, Ford Capri, Ford Corsair and two Mk I Ford Cortinas. Beyond the garage Easton Way, part of the dual-carriageway Outer Circuit Road, the rest of which was never built, has already smashed its way across Stapleton Road, severing it in to two halves and preventing the passage of traffic from one to the other. All these buildings were demolished soon afterwards.