LEX Garage - St Budeaux - Plymouth

[Burt.Plymouth]

More of my images taken from 2005

A former filling station that closed due to Normandy Way in St Budeaux becoming a normal residential street, it used to be the main road into saltash before the A38 opened.

It was all sorts of car dealers, LEX Vauxhall was the last big one that I remember, with places like YES Car Credit, and finally Car Credit UK, closing sometime in 2005 - There was planning permission put in to pull the place down, and build houses, but that was turned down, the garage stood empty for a while, with no clues showing it was To Let or For Sale, however the chavs then got in and smashed the place apart, with several fires a week the place was finally bought by Cavanna Homes, they aim to build 17 homes on this plot, by Spring 2008........ At the moment its still just an empty site

The site was fully open, I walked around with my tripod and was stopped by severel people asking what I was doing, and if I knew who owned it etc

Whats this..... oh yeah from the fire below... and I am standing on it...

Not a nice place to be, all dirty and burnt out

Shame about the flat upstairs

 

[thestig]

No way!!! I used to work there... when it was direct car finance! Must have been 2001/2002. Was an awesome place to work but then the company went to rat **** and stopped advertising... no customers... so sales... no more job :-(

I recognise loads of that and think the desks are still the same ones that we had there. I used to take my car round the back and jet wash it on the ramp before the blue garage doors... memories heh?

Is the pub still open next door? Oh, and, er, nice explore by the way

 

[Gunny]

Lovely graffitti knob

 

[lost]

Those VW Passat hubcaps are INSPIRING.

 

[Burt.Plymouth]

Is the pub still open next door?

Yeah the Cornwalls Gate is still going, perhaps I'll nip in and try & get some pics of that, would make a great report

 

[Burt.Plymouth]

Lovely graffitti knob

Its always great when they cant spell!

I had to laugh at a door in a park that had anti vandal paint signs on, someone scratched vandel all over it, it was in front of them to copy

 

[KingElvis]

A charming place, closed do you say?

 

[Burt.Plymouth]

A charming place, closed do you say?

all flat now. I am sure I have some pictures of the demo in progress somewhere, I'll have a look and see if I can find them

 

[*MrB*]

Nice one Burt