It was at the top of Claude Road as it turns west and is an odd place to site a petrol pump. I remember it well and vaguely used to wonder why it was there. My photograph dates from 1972 and the pump was still there twenty or so years later until the bit of land behind the pump was developed into a row of houses in what is now Rainbow Close. Before that it was just a bit of open land and I guess was the site of either a garage or small builder’s yard. Now the Egerton and Lloyd estates had not permitted industrial development here in Chorlton but there were plenty of small areas given over to the working of local craftsmen which will feature in more detail tomorrow, so it maybe that our pump served just such an enterprise.
Which just leaves me to add from a contributor, "I grew up at 41 Claude road there were two petrol pumps one either side.it was a row of workshops where they did repair cars they also owned no. 45 Claude Road which they rented out.the owner had a classic car with running boards and a starting handle as kids in the 70's we cut through the garages to get to the brook to play."
Picture; Street furniture on Claude Road, 1972, m58833, courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council, http://images.manchester.gov.uk/index.php?session=pass
I grew up at 41 Claude road there were two petrol pumps one either side.it was a row of workshops where they did repair cars they also owned no. 45 Claude rd which they rented out.the owner had a classic car with running boards and a starting handle as kids in the 70s we cut through the garages to get to the brook to play
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