It's an unsuspecting sight on a little country road with a vintage forecourt and a 'we serve you’ sign. The owner, who lives on site, has been a fuel pump attendant there for more than 50 years. And it has hardly changed at all.
Brian Heath bought Blue Post Petrol in 1972 when the road was a single track with passing places between Totnes and Avonwick in the Devon countryside. The road is now wider, with the old lane now a kind of "pit-stop" leading to and from the garage, but remarkably, little else has changed — pulling up onto the forecourt is very much like stepping back in time.
Mr Heath lives next to this garage in a 1960s bungalow, which his late wife used to run as a café for 19 years. Originally from Sussex, he said: “It was just about going where a garage was available, where I found work, I had to do something. This was advertised, we came and had a look at it and bought it.”
