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Old 03-04-2008, 18:10   #1
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eny one remember a garage at what is now wynsors world of shoes, well they had a petrol pump that was a vending machine you put a fiver in got five pounds worth of petrol, if the fiver had a crease in it shot it back at you.

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i live very close to that site, the only other thing i remember that was on there was the car dealers, but ive only lived here for twelve years so i guess your talking about long before that?
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I remember the petrol station but I dont remember the pumps though (think I was too young to take any notice tbh) I do know how little fuel you get for a fiver these days, its shocking the price of petrol / diesel now
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im going back to the 60`s
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Old 03-04-2008, 18:15   #5
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Im not going back that far lol Im sure I remeber a petrol station there but Im only going back to the 80's. Was it gone before then or am I getting confused with somewhere else
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waaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy before i was born then, i remember the petrol station on Whitebirk Road
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Its not that long before you was born!! Don't lie


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eny one remember a garage at what is now wynsors world of shoes, well they had a petrol pump that was a vending machine you put a fiver in got five pounds worth of petrol, if the fiver had a crease in it shot it back at you.
I remember that Petrol Station and the machine.
One night the machine went wrong and all the taxi drivers in Blackburn and Accrington filled their tanks for nothing...the news went round like wildfire and the pump was completely drained.
The following morning the owner of the garage made a plea in the telegraph and the radio that anyone who got petrol for nothing "Would they please call into the garage to pay for the petrol"
Outcome not known
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lol if it was 1960 it was 16 years before i was born
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I remember that Petrol Station and the machine.
One night the machine went wrong and all the taxi drivers in Blackburn and Accrington filled their tanks for nothing...the news went round like wildfire and the pump was completely drained.
The following morning the owner of the garage made a plea in the telegraph and the radio that anyone who got petrol for nothing "Would they please call into the garage to pay for the petrol"
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LMAO!!! oh yeah, I bet they piled up there the morning after to pay
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Old 03-04-2008, 18:29   #12
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has there ever been a all night garage in accy
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has there ever been a all night garage in accy

isnt margram open 24/7?
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