Back to the Past 1970
Published Date:
14 November 2008
IN 1970, in Brackley, Burwell Hill Garages formally reopened its forecourt after a £20,000 facelift. And to mark the occasion motorists were given 9d. of every gallon of petrol for the whole day.
The service station, pictured above in 1970, sold Cleveland petrol and oils and was one of the most modern in the area and was able to cater for customers in record time thanks to specially installed self-service pumps.
The gleaming stainless steel blender pumps, which cost more than £1,000 each, were specially imported from Sweden.
At the time, very few garages in Britain were offering this type of service.
Also from the 1970 edition of the Advertiser:
...GAWCOTT Guides were recently told that their effort to win the "Three Cheers" challenge cup, a part of the Guides' Diamond Jubilee celebrations, won for them the top place in the whole of the county.
...BRITAIN should get into the Common Market as soon as possible. That was the view of a London delegate speaking at the executive committee meeting of the Bucks branch of the National Farmers Union.
...BRACKLEY Football Club is within sight of having a good, permanent pitch after months of using a temporary ground which has sometimes had to be shared with grazing cattle.
100 YEARS AGO
RESPECTING the new railway which is being constructed in the Bicester and Brill district, it appears there will be five new stations - Brill & Ludgershall, Blackthorn, Bicester, Ardley, and Aynho, the last-named adjoining the station on the existing main line.
THE Buckingham Harriers' Gymnasium at the Boys' National School, is now open and a limited number of members are still required to fill up classes in gymnastics, fencing, boxing, etc.
NO less than 17 degrees of frost were registered in Buckingham on Monday night. This was a severe first bite by King Frost.
50 YEARS AGO
BOTH the Board of Trade and the Town and Country Planning Authority have approved the erection of a poultry processing plant on a site in Buckingham Road, Brackley, for the Fatsock Marketing Corporation Ltd. The plant will be capable of processing 100,000 birds per week.
THE monthly index of the National Federation of Wholesale Grocers and Provision Merchants shows that food prices last month were the highest since July 1957. Butter, eggs, fruit and cheese have all been increased in price. Sugar and jam have gone down slightly. The only big reduction has been in the price of flour.
THE ladies of the Band Uniform Committee organised a successful dance in Marsh Gibbon Village Hall on Saturday, when dancing was to music by the Aylesbury Amplifying Co.
25 YEARS AGO
PARENTS of children at Thornborough First School are battling to have a decision taken by the Secretary of State for Education, Sir Keith Joseph, reversed. Following approval of a Bucks County Council recommendation, Thornborough children will be transferred to Great Horwood Combined School at the age of eight instead of the present nine.
THERE was sadness at Lillingstone Dayrell when Tripper the donkey, a local celebrity who has raised thousands of pounds for charity, went to a new home at the Horses Home of Rest at Newton Longville.
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Last Updated:
14 November 2008 11:39 AM
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