Former garage in St Mawes, Cornwall.
Ross contacted me in 2011, with photographs of an interesting old garage-cum-petrol station that he stumbled across in St Mawes, Cornwall, near to the harbour. Although no longer in use as a garage, the premises have been preserved and are now home to a boat repair business, and happily the old petrol pumps still stand alongside what was the garage forecourt. The pump globes advertise Shell motor spirit, both Regular and Premium, back in the days of leaded-only fuel, at a time when a gent or lady, usually in white overalls, would appear on your arrival and top up your tank as required. The two outermost pumps look like they date to the 1920s or 1930s, while the two pumps with the yellow globes probably hail from the 1950s.
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