In 1929, the filling station consisted of a largish detached house, a wooden building, which was the shop and a number of petrol pumps – hand operated of course.
William Gold followed his father by also working on the railway and at one stage worked in West Bromwich where he met and married Lily Jane Edith Gee, the daughter ...
Facilities in our house were fairly basic; water was drawn by hand pump from a well just a few feet beyond the front door.
The late 1950s saw a change in the way petrol was retailed, whereas in the late 1920s and early ‘30s it was not unusual for filling stations to have a ...