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Just a brief trip back to December 2024, these photos were taken around four days after Boston Road Service Station closed for good.
On this day the site was being fenced off by who I believe was the owner, he'd said that the building needed some attention as it goes back to the 1950's but wouldn't be demolished anytime soon, also saying he wasn't sure what was planned for the site.
By the beginning of 2025 most of the Gulf branding would be removed, this would show some Jet branding from the 1980's and the totem pole would also be removed.
Previous fuel brands include Total & Fina.
It was Total branded in 2008
www.google.com/maps/place/Boston+Road+Service+Station/@53...

Just a brief trip back to December 2024, these photos were taken around four days after Boston Road Service Station closed for good.
On this day the site was being fenced off by who I believe was the owner, he'd said that the building needed some attention as it goes back to the 1950's but wouldn't be demolished anytime soon, also saying he wasn't sure what was planned for the site.
By the beginning of 2025 most of the Gulf branding would be removed, this would show some Jet branding from the 1980's and the totem pole would also be removed.
Previous fuel brands include Total & Fina.
It was Total branded in 2008
www.google.com/maps/place/Boston+Road+Service+Station/@53...

Just a brief trip back to December 2024, these photos were taken around four days after Boston Road Service Station closed for good.
On this day the site was being fenced off by who I believe was the owner, he'd said that the building needed some attention as it goes back to the 1950's but wouldn't be demolished anytime soon, also saying he wasn't sure what was planned for the site.
By the beginning of 2025 most of the Gulf branding would be removed, this would show some Jet branding from the 1980's and the totem pole would also be removed.
Previous fuel brands include Total & Fina.
It was Total branded in 2008
www.google.com/maps/place/Boston+Road+Service+Station/@53...

Just a brief trip back to December 2024, these photos were taken around four days after Boston Road Service Station closed for good.
On this day the site was being fenced off by who I believe was the owner, he'd said that the building needed some attention as it goes back to the 1950's but wouldn't be demolished anytime soon, also saying he wasn't sure what was planned for the site.
By the beginning of 2025 most of the Gulf branding would be removed, this would show some Jet branding from the 1980's and the totem pole would also be removed.
Previous fuel brands include Total & Fina.
It was Total branded in 2008
www.google.com/maps/place/Boston+Road+Service+Station/@53...

This was an exemplar of "what it looks like to have a large vacant lot in the 'old part' of Virginia Beach."

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In Virginia Beach, Virginia, on October 10th, 2023, was a view toward Dominion Energy's Atlantic Substation from the north side of Virginia Beach Boulevard (U.S. 58 Business Spur), east of Arctic Avenue.

Per Google Streetview, the foreground expanse was formerly occupied by an Exxon station. Per my review of Google Earth historical satellite imagery, it was demolished sometime between November 2021 and April 2023.

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Sadly at the beginning of December 2024, Boston Road Service Station in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, closed for good despite a number of petitions to keep it open.
Rumours have been that this site is to make way for a Lidl store but also this coincides with plans for an Aldi on Spilsby Rd, which was the site of Clarkes Garage (Rix petrol station), this was demolished a few years back.
In the present day the Shell petrol station is the only one operating in the town as the new Asda site (Formerly Mountview Garage) has not opened yet.
I do have photographs of this site just after it closed, these will come next but opted for this as by Jan 2025 most of the Gulf branding had been removed which now shows the 1980's Jet branding on the canopy.
Dan Lockton has a photo from 1999 as a Fina and Richard has a couple after it rebranded to Total and then Gulf, which was the last brand sold.
Google street view 2008 branded Total
www.google.com/maps/place/Boston+Road+Service+Station/@53...

Sadly at the beginning of December 2024, Boston Road Service Station in Horncastle, Lincolnshire, closed for good despite a number of petitions to keep it open.
Rumours have been that this site is to make way for a Lidl store but also this coincides with plans for an Aldi on Spilsby Rd, which was the site of Clarkes Garage (Rix petrol station), this was demolished a few years back.
In the present day the Shell petrol station is the only one operating in the town as the new Asda site (Formerly Mountview Garage) has not opened yet.
I do have photographs of this site just after it closed, these will come next but opted for this as by Jan 2025 most of the Gulf branding had been removed which now shows the 1980's Jet branding on the canopy.
Dan Lockton has a photo from 1999 as a Fina and Richard has a couple after it rebranded to Total and then Gulf, which was the last brand sold.
Google street view 2008 branded Total
www.google.com/maps/place/Boston+Road+Service+Station/@53...

This is in Menominee, Michigan, up on the U.P.

Do you like cross-gabled jerkinhead roofs!

FOLLOWING A REVIEW of Menominee city directories, I estimate that the building was built in the mid-1920s. It is not listed in the 1924 directory. In the 1926 directory, it is identified as the Menominee Oil Company Service Station.

In the 1938 directory, it is listed as the Barstow Oil Company filling station. In the 1946 and 1953 directories, it is listed as the Evans Service Station. I hope you have enjoyed learning the results of my research.

I refuse to occupy the building until rows of bollards have been installed on all sides, to prevent cars from crashing into it.

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In downtown Menominee, Michigan, on May 24th, 2024, was 831 1st St, at the southwest corner of 1st Street and 9th Avenue.

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
• Service stations—Remodeling for other use (sh85010373)

The idea was, first they'd paint the red bricks white. Next, paint flecks would be released into the environment every time it rained, into local waterways and animals' bloodstreams etc, over decades. This happened everywhere.

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In downtown Ottumwa, Iowa, on October 27th, 2020, was the office of lawyer H. Edwin Detlie at 303 E 2nd St (a/k/a 305 E 2nd St, built in 1930 as a Continental Oil Station, a "contributing property" in the Greater Second Street Historic District, 16000365 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of East 2nd Street and North Green Street.

As of October 2024, the building is occupied by Check it Out, a check cashing and payday loan business.

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I'd had this one on my list for a good few years now but never managed to get here until April 2024
Sadly this was after finding out a few weeks before that Bridge Service Station had closed for good and after speaking to a couple of people outside the pub next door they'd said that it was down to retirement as the lady that served the fuel was 92 years old.
It was also said that the bulk of the fuel trade came from the locals so I imagine that the forecourt wasn't exactly the busiest, although I think the character of the site with it's old fashioned pumps brought a few extra people to the area for photographs as well as the rare attended service experience.
Appleton Roebuck is a lovely little village with the service station at the top end of a little lane which sits next door to the Shoulder of Mutton pub.
Upon the approach to the service station the signs that it had closed were clearly visible with one of the access roads now completely blocked off and a Rix floor sign on the corner of the main road permanently reads closed.
Mostly unchanged throughout the street view era, but like many Rix sites removing the branding/ altering the colour scheme which here was just for the pumps as the Rix logo on the building still remains.
2008 Google street view
4 Malt Kiln Ln
maps.app.goo.gl/L1Zpfj7FUCRvTDHT9?g_st=ac

I'd had this one on my list for a good few years now but never managed to get here until April 2024
Sadly this was after finding out a few weeks before that Bridge Service Station had closed for good and after speaking to a couple of people outside the pub next door they'd said that it was down to retirement as the lady that served the fuel was 92 years old.
It was also said that the bulk of the fuel trade came from the locals so I imagine that the forecourt wasn't exactly the busiest, although I think the character of the site with it's old fashioned pumps brought a few extra people to the area for photographs as well as the rare attended service experience.
Appleton Roebuck is a lovely little village with the service station at the top end of a little lane which sits next door to the Shoulder of Mutton pub.
Upon the approach to the service station the signs that it had closed were clearly visible with one of the access roads now completely blocked off and a Rix floor sign on the corner of the main road permanently reads closed.
Mostly unchanged throughout the street view era, but like many Rix sites removing the branding/ altering the colour scheme which here was just for the pumps as the Rix logo on the building still remains.
2008 Google street view
4 Malt Kiln Ln
maps.app.goo.gl/L1Zpfj7FUCRvTDHT9?g_st=ac

Although this site has been occupied by Gallows Wood Recovery for many years I'd never realised that this had at one point been a filling station despite passing it regularly over the last two years.
Even though I live around half an hour from here Chris Barker had beat me to photographing this site and had the information that this road had been a main traffic route until the construction of the nearby M180 Motorway (which I didn't know if honest) with completion of this no doubt affecting the amount of traffic using this stretch of road which would have certainly had a knock on effect on trade at this Service Station.
Paul Roper added that this had been both an Esso & Major filling station before it's closure sometime in the 1980's as a new fuel forecourt opened up on the M180/A15 interchange (Junction 5) which again would add more suffering to sales of fuel
Today just a single pump stands which is used for refuelling the numerous recovery vehicles with the site looking unchanged all throughout street view.
www.google.com/maps/place/Gallows+Wood+Service+Station+Lt...

Chris Barkers photo is below in the comments box

Although this site has been occupied by Gallows Wood Recovery for many years I'd never realised that this had at one point been a filling station despite passing it regularly over the last two years.
Even though I live around half an hour from here Chris Barker had beat me to photographing this site and had the information that this road had been a main traffic route until the construction of the nearby M180 Motorway (which I didn't know if honest) with completion of this no doubt affecting the amount of traffic using this stretch of road which would have certainly had a knock on effect on trade at this Service Station.
Paul Roper added that this had been both an Esso & Major filling station before it's closure sometime in the 1980's as a new fuel forecourt opened up on the M180/A15 interchange (Junction 5) which again would add more suffering to sales of fuel
Today just a single pump stands which is used for refuelling the numerous recovery vehicles with the site looking unchanged all throughout street view.
www.google.com/maps/place/Gallows+Wood+Service+Station+Lt...

Chris Barkers photo is below in the comments box

Although this site has been occupied by Gallows Wood Recovery for many years I'd never realised that this had at one point been a filling station despite passing it regularly over the last two years.
Even though I live around half an hour from here Chris Barker had beat me to photographing this site and had the information that this road had been a main traffic route until the construction of the nearby M180 Motorway (which I didn't know if honest) with completion of this no doubt affecting the amount of traffic using this stretch of road which would have certainly had a knock on effect on trade at this Service Station.
Paul Roper added that this had been both an Esso & Major filling station before it's closure sometime in the 1980's as a new fuel forecourt opened up on the M180/A15 interchange (Junction 5) which again would add more suffering to sales of fuel
Today just a single pump stands which is used for refuelling the numerous recovery vehicles with the site looking unchanged all throughout street view.
www.google.com/maps/place/Gallows+Wood+Service+Station+Lt...

Chris Barkers photo is below in the comments box

Just a short distance from the recently posted Express Hand Car Wash on Beverley Road is Fountain Road which has two ex filling stations with this being one of them.
All through street view this site has been a Car sales garage with most of the images showing the garage trading as Barcleys Car Sales which sometime after May 2022 there was a change in name becoming Big Bob Car Sales Ltd.
I did meet Bob who informed me that it had been quite some time since it was a filling station but had been known as either Fountain Rd service Station/Garage and was also quite keen on finding out some of the site history.
Today there is still evidence that this was a filling station with the fuel tank covers/tank ventilators still visible.
Previously there had also been an automatic car wash on site too which one end has now been bricked up and is now used as a workshop.
Google street view from 2008
www.google.com/maps/@53.7550112,-0.3478013,3a,75y,105.55h...

Just a short distance from the recently posted Express Hand Car Wash on Beverley Road is Fountain Road which has two ex filling stations with this being one of them.
All through street view this site has been a Car sales garage with most of the images showing the garage trading as Barcleys Car Sales which sometime after May 2022 there was a change in name becoming Big Bob Car Sales Ltd.
I did meet Bob who informed me that it had been quite some time since it was a filling station but had been known as either Fountain Rd service Station/Garage and was also quite keen on finding out some of the site history.
Today there is still evidence that this was a filling station with the fuel tank covers/tank ventilators still visible.
Previously there had also been an automatic car wash on site too which one end has now been bricked up and is now used as a workshop.
Google street view from 2008
www.google.com/maps/@53.7550112,-0.3478013,3a,75y,105.55h...

Just a short distance from the recently posted Express Hand Car Wash on Beverley Road is Fountain Road which has two ex filling stations with this being one of them.
All through street view this site has been a Car sales garage with most of the images showing the garage trading as Barcleys Car Sales which sometime after May 2022 there was a change in name becoming Big Bob Car Sales Ltd.
I did meet Bob who informed me that it had been quite some time since it was a filling station but had been known as either Fountain Rd service Station/Garage and was also quite keen on finding out some of the site history.
Today there is still evidence that this was a filling station with the fuel tank covers/tank ventilators still visible.
Previously there had also been an automatic car wash on site too which one end has now been bricked up and is now used as a workshop.
Google street view from 2008
www.google.com/maps/@53.7550112,-0.3478013,3a,75y,105.55h...

This former service station was, and might still be, the home of Headers, a local Atlanta car club. I really like the lines of this station and the canted office windows. I tried e-mailing the club to get some history of the station but didn't get a response.

Former service station at Yale and 11th. Now Prince Cleaners.