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Coronet Petrol Station


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Here it is on Effingham Road in the 50s. It was long and thin because of the canal (and a travelling crane) behind it:

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Wow.

I Always though that building looked strange...never knew it was a petrol station.

The top image is fantastic.

When did it shut down and become a sales pitch?

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Guest ericsson

Coronet Petrol Station. My dad, Eric Shaw ran this petrol station in the very early 1950's just before I started at Whitby Road Infant School. My dad was 90 years of age on Jan 24th 2015. I'm 65 now and was born Dec 21st 1949. The name changed to Effingham Road Filling Station when my dad had it. NB the wall behind is the canal wall! We then moved on to Staniforth Road Service Station, which is still a mainly vacant lot, but eventually moved on to Abbeydale Road Filling Station, now a Tesco's station. That's progress for you. In my teens we then took on a grocery shop down the road and opened a car spares in the small room with a window on the corner of Archer Road, but within a year or two took over the whole premises as Shaw's Motor Shop, now Bullseye.

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