If its the same one I'm thinking of John then it was a Volvo dealers in later years but I think it may have been a Triangle garage before that but I'm not sure.
not seen this from this angle before , a bloody good mock up , if i remember right when the gates been posted before it was to commemorate King Edward VII or George V .
The train line was known as 'straight line' and ran from Dairycoates crossing, up behind Franny Askew School, across Anlaby Road and then joined the Cott/Beverley line near Ideal Standard. And there was an old tramshed - Wheeler Street Depot (was the Corpo bus painting works)
They were pretty good cars the old Talbot 90s. Some police forces used to have them - they were quite fast cars in their day. Noticed a Rover and Humber Hawk in and amongst the Sunbeam Talbots.
I had a series 3 (1963) to restore but in the end it was too rotten, I'd love to get hold of Tiger version with a 4.2 lump under the bonnet
The guy I go to City with had a Sunbeam Alpine back when we were about eighteen, he's had a few similar toys since and is currently doing a full rebuild on a Seres 1 E-Type, it's costing him a fortune.
Ah thanks for that Stanley I remember the line crossing many streets down Hawthorn Ave, Wheeler St, where Ostlers bakery was in those days and Haltemprice St and you say onto Dairycoats. Well we use to stand on the overhead bridge when the old steam trains were running underneath and we would disappear in the cloud of smoke at the trains passed through, simple pleasures in those days LOL. The bus depot catered for the old trolly buses and then the newer petrol/diesel buses later on, for some reason though I always thought that railway somehow connected to the station at Boothferry Park, don't know why.
Wonder how many people still refer to the Garage on Boothferry Road (Esso/Tesco) as Green Arrow garage?
I do as well. My dad bought an Austin 1300 from Kennings in 1969. I'm sure it came from the one on the same side as Boothferry Park. It was three months old and cost £900. He kept it till 1983! Chrysler sponsored parts of Coventry's Highfield Road ground. We sat in the Hillman Avenger stand for a cup tie in the early 1970's. It was behind the goal and the bar was the entire length of the stand.
The 'straight line' was a link, so excursions from South Yorks, etc. could join up with the Brid/Scarboro line (without going via York, or in and out of Paragon station). The line to BP station came off (still does) at a similar place @ Dairycoates. It is the link from the Alex. Dock overhead line to the mainline from Hull to Goole/Selby.
I still do, my memory of it was when I played for the school team at Anlaby, one evening after school we were waiting for the bus outside Green arrow to go a play against Brough, and it wss raining on the other side of the road but not where we were. Sticks in my mind, so just saying like.
I sometimes used to walk to games at Boothferry Park along the cinder track that ran alongside Willerby Road, we used to climb down somewhere near where the petrol station is(where Spring Bank changes to Willerby Road).
Kingston Road changes to Willerby road more or less where the Springhead golf club entrance is, but I guess you mean Kingston Petrol Station near the Hop Pole?
And it's Spring Bank West up to Priory Roundabout, and then Willerby Rd. up to where you state, John. (OLM might mean where the old ('straight') line crossed Sp.Bk.W and walking it thru to the Anlaby Rd/Boothferry Rd. roundabout?)
Me as well but I did have a mate who was an apprentice mechanic at the car dealers at the time VW? anyway he forgot to tighten the wheel nuts on a car that had been services/mot'd and the wheel fell off as the car was driven down Boothferry Road, don't know what happened to the driver or the car but I know what happened to my mate.
Right I got it, maybe your right, I just couldn't remember there being a petrol station where Willerby Road and SBW meet.
