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Offline Hugo

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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #15 on: September 20, 2017, 08:18:28 am »
My friend sent me an e-mail with a few more to add to the list.    I had forgotten about some of them but his e-mail jogged the old memories back again

 again just a few snippets!
 Re garages:
  Starting from Penmaenhead :-
   knowles garage = penmaenhead
   bluebird filling station old colwyn, abergele road/llysfaen road
   m+k old colwyn.
   white`s garage (opposite m+k`s)
   mobil old colwyn (formely cooper`s)
   garage where plumb centre is now !
   opposite park hotel
   braid`s garage (pump on corner of erw-wen road (i think it was
national!)
   seem to remember a garage with single pump at top of grove road (cul-
de-sac)
   another memory is a pair of pumps with a little shed alongside down
by Collins amusement park on way down to pier. would be grateful if
anyone could verify these last two!
   hollindrakes, princess drive
   chester engineering, princess drive
   francis garage west end
   braids,west end
   links garage,penrhyn bay
   morfa road garage, penrhyn bay
   penrhyn bay service station
   hutchinsons llandudno prom/nant-y-gamar road
   promenade garage craig-y-don
   barlows,queens road.
   small garage opposite bernards queens road,
   storers victoria ave.
     

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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #16 on: September 20, 2017, 08:45:26 am »
My friend sent me an e-mail with a few more to add to the list.    I had forgotten about some of them but his e-mail jogged the old memories back again

 again just a few snippets!
 Re garages:
  Starting from Penmaenhead :-
   knowles garage = penmaenhead
   bluebird filling station old colwyn, abergele road/llysfaen road
   m+k old colwyn.
   white`s garage (opposite m+k`s)
   mobil old colwyn (formely cooper`s)
   garage where plumb centre is now !
   opposite park hotel
   braid`s garage (pump on corner of erw-wen road (i think it was
national!)
   seem to remember a garage with single pump at top of grove road (cul-
de-sac)
   another memory is a pair of pumps with a little shed alongside down
by Collins amusement park on way down to pier. would be grateful if
anyone could verify these last two!
   hollindrakes, princess drive
   chester engineering, princess drive
   francis garage west end
   braids,west end
   links garage,penrhyn bay
   morfa road garage, penrhyn bay
   penrhyn bay service station
   hutchinsons llandudno prom/nant-y-gamar road
   promenade garage craig-y-don
   barlows,queens road.
   small garage opposite bernards queens road,
   storers victoria ave.
   
That's a great list. Many thanks to your friend for sharing.  $good$


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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #17 on: September 20, 2017, 08:53:38 am »
The garage where Plumb Centre in Old Colwyn is now was owned by Red Garages (Llandudno).  I note Red Garages Llandudno is missing from that list.  There also a garage in West Shore where Able World is now but I cannot remember whose that was.

White's Garage opposite M&K ... bumped into owner Roy White at Eglwysbach Show last month.  I did co-drive for his son Julian on a few car rallies some years ago.

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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #18 on: September 20, 2017, 10:36:39 am »
I I have the right West Shore Garage, my brother worked there - Citroen main dealer then.  I'd need to check with him but I've a feeling that it was connected in some way with the Tyldesley family (builders). I'm also coming up wit the name Stanhope.

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« Reply #19 on: September 20, 2017, 11:00:55 am »
I I have the right West Shore Garage, my brother worked there - Citroen main dealer then.  I'd need to check with him but I've a feeling that it was connected in some way with the Tyldesley family (builders). I'm also coming up wit the name Stanhope.
I believe the Stanhopes owned (still own?) the LSP garage next to Broadway Boulevard.

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« Reply #20 on: September 20, 2017, 11:06:14 am »
Interesting DaveR and my brother also worked there before going to West Shore.  Things can change of course and I could be wrong, etc.  but the name I'm coming up for with LSP is Lovell Smith.  LSP being something like Lovell Smith Properties???

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« Reply #21 on: September 20, 2017, 11:15:02 am »
Interesting DaveR and my brother also worked there before going to West Shore.  Things can change of course and I could be wrong, etc.  but the name I'm coming up for with LSP is Lovell Smith.  LSP being something like Lovell Smith Properties???
Lovell-Smith Partnership.  ;)

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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #22 on: September 20, 2017, 01:38:16 pm »
Two more in Rhos. The Rhos County Garage alongside what is now the Spar store. And the Rhos garage, always better known as Berry's garage. Up the entry behind the mount Stewart hotel. Sold clevedon petrol from one or two pumps

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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #23 on: September 20, 2017, 02:14:12 pm »
Funny the way I can place many of the names now they are given.  Chester Engineering had me puzzled a while, thinking it wasn’t, which has led me to a sort of tangential and OT question.  Can anyone think of a company in CB that sold Renolds chain, probably SKF bearings, etc.  Coming into CB from the old Laundry Works, I think it would have been on the left on the main road but I can’t think how far down.

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« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2017, 08:20:46 am »
I've had another list from my friend who must have been busy thinking about the garages as there are some old ones included in his list

 i just thought those few would suffice for last
night so had a break, as your fellow user commented on the fact i had
missed red garage conway road i thought i had better pull a few more
out!!
 carrying on from craig-y-don you had:-
  l s p. broadway.
  red garage. conway road.
  beacon garage, garage street.
  vernons garage, back charlton street.
  garage in jubilee street near chinese laundry (remember that?)
  davis`s garage, back madoc street.
  garage in new street,back of the odeon.
  imperial garage, bodafon street.
  somerset garage, somerset street.
  windsor garage, vadre lane.
  garage in water street (50/50 whether they sold petrol?)
  west shore garage,.
  also there was a fuel pump at john thompson`s which i only saw them
filling their own vans at.
  i feel sure i have missed an obvious one which i will kick myself
for!!
  llandudno junction/deganwy.
  there was a garage at bottom of york road before quick-save opened,i
think robertson research have it now.
  garth motors, deganwy.
  castle view,glan-y-mor road
  l s p. the junction
  hughes. bottom of the hill.
  marineland.
  that`s my lot for to-night!     

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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2017, 08:27:40 am »
Funny the way I can place many of the names now they are given.  Chester Engineering had me puzzled a while, thinking it wasn’t, which has led me to a sort of tangential and OT question.  Can anyone think of a company in CB that sold Renolds chain, probably SKF bearings, etc.  Coming into CB from the old Laundry Works, I think it would have been on the left on the main road but I can’t think how far down.
My Dad worked at Chester Engineering in Princes Drive in the early 1970s. I seem to recall (maybe wrongly) that they were linked with Braids in the West End at one time? Both became part of Lookers maybe?

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« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2017, 08:28:46 am »
Photo of Hollingdrakes in Princes Drive, courtesy of Merfyn Jones on Flickr:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/merf29/


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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2017, 08:32:40 am »
Chester Engineering in Princes Drive:

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« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2017, 08:37:30 am »
Braids (Braid Bros) in the West End of Colwyn Bay, in the 1940s? They used to assemble army vehicles (jeeps?) during World War II. I think the building was remodelled in the 1950s/60s as I remember the frontage looking somewhat different in the 1970s

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Re: where have all the petrol stations gone !!!
« Reply #29 on: September 21, 2017, 09:06:33 am »
A couple of adverts for Braid Bros in Colwyn Bay & Deganwy. I loved looking round their showroom in Abergele Road (now Stermat) when I was a kid.


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