Old Petrol Station, Colwick, Nottingham - April 2004

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Thought I'd get these few old pics up since no-one else has done a report on this spot. Colwick loop road, just past the racecourse.

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These pics are the only documentation I have of it since it's recently been demolished - it had previously sat abandoned for many years. (Right next to a Toby Carvery - I suspect they bought the land to extend their car park!)
It had the occasional bit of graffiti from local boys such as FORM, ASKR, CREAK, LK & HUMZ.
 
Petrol station aren't really considered report fodder... mostly due to their being so many of them closed and them being terminally boring.
 
Could you of climbed through the hole where the cash point used to be to take some internal shots :question:
 
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Unfortunately these were taken a few years back, when I didn't know about the whole urban exploration style of documenting everything, I was just getting shots of the building from a photography point of view.
 
Went past it quite a few times. Not long before it was demolished it had bad fire damage, no roof at all. Maybe that was a reason for it being demolished, as nothing at all has happened since and that was quite a few months ago.
 
Yeah maybe that was it. That big yellow wall will probably do a good job of keeping people out now anyway, shame they flattened it though. Do you have to wait a while before you can build on an old petrol site?
 
Yeah maybe that was it. That big yellow wall will probably do a good job of keeping people out now anyway, shame they flattened it though. Do you have to wait a while before you can build on an old petrol site?

I dont think so, you just have to dig out the tanks.
 
I've seen a fair few empty sites where petrol stations once stood, in Derby many closed in the 1990s and the land is still empty on most of them.
 
Maybe it's just that no-one wants to own a tiny square of land by a main road! I love the way people use the land without permission, like to wash cars or even sell Rugs! :mrgreen:
 

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