12 April 2014

• 10:2110:21, 12 April 2014 diff hist +1,333 File:Stirling restaurant 2014.jpg No edit summary
• 10:1110:11, 12 April 2014 diff hist +532 N File:Stirling Foyer 2014 2.jpg Looking away from the old entrance towards the EDC. The new configuration of these services suggests that EDC might not be long for this world. Originally this would have been the Country Kitchen and there would have been glass doors and a partition wa...
• 10:0610:06, 12 April 2014 diff hist +560 File:Stirling new entrance.jpg No edit summary
• 10:0110:01, 12 April 2014 diff hist +551 N File:Stirling foyer2014.jpg The foyer in Stirling Services looking away from the EDC restaurant. The old entrance, blocked off, is at 2 o'clock, the BK at 3 o'clock, the arcade bit at 1 o'clock, WH Smith at 9 o'clock and the toilets dead ahead. The toilets used to be pretty rank ...

25 March 2014

• 01:0601:06, 25 March 2014 diff hist +416 N File:Kingdom former drive thru.jpg Strain your eyes and you can just see the markings on the road for what was once the Wimpy Drive thru. The services had both a main restaurant and Wimpy before Peggy Sue's landed
• 01:0001:00, 25 March 2014 diff hist +344 N File:Kingdom old restaurant.jpg Chequerboard tiles show where the restaurant seating area was. For a brief time this was Peggy Sue's Diner
• 00:5600:56, 25 March 2014 diff hist +322 N File:Kingdom flat.jpg What remains of Kingdom Services today. Totally flattened and awaiting redevelopment

3 November 2013

• 19:1119:11, 3 November 2013 diff hist +446 N File:Burton in Kendal restaurant.jpg Seating area for Burton in Kendal. Once upon a time this all would have been the Country Kitchen. Now it houses EDC, BK and Costa. The area is L-shaped with Costa over to the right

18 February 2013

• 01:3801:38, 18 February 2013 diff hist +255 N File:Cairn Lodge roadside totem.jpg The Cairn Lodge roadside totem.
• 01:3601:36, 18 February 2013 diff hist +395 N File:More Happendon restaurant seating.jpg The rest of the seating to the south end of the restaurant at Happendon complete with windows overlooking the original "Cairn Lodge". A great snapshot of 90s roadside chic.
• 01:3301:33, 18 February 2013 diff hist +216 N File:Happendon Fountain.jpg The fountain in the restaurant at Happendon Services.
• 01:3101:31, 18 February 2013 diff hist +366 N File:Happendon restaurant seating.jpg The seating area of the restaurant at Happendon services. A vision in green and blue with a tartan carpet. A bit like John Menzies circa 1995.

7 September 2012

• 00:0000:00, 7 September 2012 diff hist +491 File:Kingdom Services car park from east.jpg uploaded a new version of "File:Kingdom Services car park from east.jpg": Looking from the east, the first two sections are for cars. Beyond the tree belt and lamp posts is the coach and lorry park with the industrial estate behind that

6 September 2012

• 23:3823:38, 6 September 2012 diff hist +707 N File:Kingdom Services amenity building viewed from south west.jpg The boarded up amenity building for the former Kingdom Services, as viewed from the car park (A92-M90 spur link behind me). The protruding boarded up bits would have been the drive-thru windows for the Wimpy and the windows to the right would have been fo

4 August 2012

• 01:0101:01, 4 August 2012 diff hist +361 N File:Welcome Break Peartree Granada marking.jpg The places they wouldn't think to change. The cleaning cupboard in the toilets still sports the Granada signage.
• 00:5900:59, 4 August 2012 diff hist +329 N File:Welcome Break Peartree toilet access.jpg The toilet access seems pretty much unchanged too. Basic but clean and functional
• 00:5700:57, 4 August 2012 diff hist +389 N File:Mnm 155.jpg KFC is now where Burger King would have been while the amusements don't seem to have moved. They still sport that telltale Granada carpet too
• 00:5500:55, 4 August 2012 diff hist +703 N File:Welcome Break Oxford Peartree foyer.jpg This is the new look foyer for Oxford Peartree TRSA under the Welcome Break regime. My back is to the toilet entrance with the main entrance to the building from the car park in front of me, Starbucks to the left and Waitrose to the right. This space woul
• 00:2200:22, 4 August 2012 diff hist +520 N File:Little Chef York exterior.jpg The front of the Little Chef building at York. It shows the new 2008 branding as tweaked by Heston Blumenthal. Charlie (The Little Chef)loses his neckerchief and gains a chef jacket. This branding continued until 2011 when Charlie also lost his tray and h
• 00:1800:18, 4 August 2012 diff hist +375 N File:Cherwell Valley exterior 2.jpg The front of Cherwell Valley Services showing the entrance and the part of the building to the west of it. Lots of glass and the new Moto building design
• 00:1600:16, 4 August 2012 diff hist +375 N File:Cherwell Valley exterior.jpg The front of Cherwell Valley Services showing the entrance and the part of the building to the east of it. Lots of glass and the new Moto building design
• 00:1400:14, 4 August 2012 diff hist +497 N File:Cherwell Valley interior 2.jpg This picture is taken looking east with my back to the M&S Simply Food. The main entrance is to the right with the Costa. It shows all the retail/ food outlets in a line with the seating in front of the windows opposite
• 00:1100:11, 4 August 2012 diff hist +389 N File:Cherwell Valley New Costa.jpg This shows the new Costa Coffee area in the rebuilt Cherwell Valley Services. like Wetherby it sits in the funnel shaped area in the services giving it a high roof.
• 00:0800:08, 4 August 2012 diff hist +305 N File:Cherwell Valley interior 1.jpg Cherwell Valley interior. This is looking from the east side of the new building with back to the EDC.

29 July 2012

• 19:0219:02, 29 July 2012 diff hist +400 N File:Stracatho lorry park.jpg To the south west of the amenity building is the large lorry park, pretty popular with the haulage set due to its cheapness. Not tarmac'd but, believe me, the surface is so much better than it used to be!
• 19:0019:00, 29 July 2012 diff hist +389 N File:Sign for Stracathro Service Area.jpg Just to prove it is a genuine TRSA this is the sign for Stracathro Service Area on the A90. I think it is probably the furthest north TRSA in the UK. Only the filling station is open 24 hours.
• 18:5818:58, 29 July 2012 diff hist +740 N File:Stracathro Service Area filling station.jpg Standing with my back to the access from the interchange junction this is the filling station for Stracathro Services, screened from the A90 by a large hedge on the left. this was originally operated by BP, then Shell and is now Gulf. It is known for havi
• 18:5318:53, 29 July 2012 diff hist +565 N File:The original filling station.jpg The original filling station was to the south west of the main building. When this road was still the main road the services would have been on the other side of the road to the filling station. When the new junction was built a new filling stationwas cre
• 18:5018:50, 29 July 2012 diff hist +454 N File:Stracathro service Area back.jpg The rear of Stracathro Service Area which now looks onto the A90 dual carriageway after it was re-routed. The same slogan is written across the top, hoping to lure the weary travellers. The posh seating occupies the last few windows with the kitchen the r
• 18:4718:47, 29 July 2012 diff hist +787 N File:Stracathro Service Area original front.jpg The main services building and car park are viewed from the old road (once the main A94 Perth to Stonehaven road). The A94 was re-routed around the back of the services when the dualling was done and traffic now accesses the services by a grade separated
• 18:3818:38, 29 July 2012 diff hist +430 N File:Stracatho foyer area.jpg Taken with my back to the conservatory, the entrance and car park are to the right, the servery immediately to the left, the kiosk shop beyond that and straight ahead through the door are the toilets and shower. The A90 is to the left
• 18:3518:35, 29 July 2012 diff hist +463 N File:The conservatory viewed from the foyer.jpg The conservatory area fronts the car park and sits adjacent to the main canteen seating and servery with windows separating it from them. It also has a window opening to the foyer which is what this picture was taken through. Once restaurant seating, now
• 18:3318:33, 29 July 2012 diff hist +461 N File:The conservatory area.jpg The conservatory area fronts the car park and sits adjacent to the main canteen seating and servery with windows separating it from them. It has currently been given over to additional retail space but would originally have had the same tables as the main
• 18:3018:30, 29 July 2012 diff hist +326 N File:The Stracathro servery.jpg Again a proper old school 1970s servery thatb looks very like some of the original MSAs. This one still survives in all its glory!
• 18:2818:28, 29 July 2012 diff hist +317 N File:The Stracathro shop (kiosk window onto foyer on car park side).jpg The kiosk as viewed and accessed through its other window onto the foyer, which looks onto the car park. Sweeties galore!
• 18:2618:26, 29 July 2012 diff hist +500 N File:Mnm 112.jpg The original shop at Stracathro. Originally this was like a kiosk with two little windows, just to the right of the servery (looked at from the car park). However, it has slowly started to encroach and now takes over the end of the servery area too. Prope
• 18:2318:23, 29 July 2012 diff hist +370 N File:The seating adjacent to the servery.jpg The main Stracathro seating area is a vision of paper lightshades, formica tables and seats which fold up/ down when not is use. Looks like the transport cafes of childhood!
• 18:1818:18, 29 July 2012 diff hist +376 N File:Stracathro posh seating area 2.jpg A shot showing the windows and the tasty 70s lightshades in the posh seating area. The windows to the right overlook the A90 and the ones straight ahead look to the filling station
• 18:1618:16, 29 July 2012 diff hist +524 N File:Stracathro posh seating area.jpg The seating area for the restaurant for Stracathro was originally split into 3 parts. This is the fancier bit which has its own room through an archway. It may have originally been the no smoking area. The other two areas are the main seating beside the s

18 June 2012

• 09:1609:16, 18 June 2012 diff hist +597 File:Ferrybridge EDC seating area.jpg No edit summary
• 09:1409:14, 18 June 2012 diff hist +386 N File:Ferrybridge amenity building outside.jpg Again this shows just how high and triangular the building is with full height here given over to the restaurant seating.
• 09:1209:12, 18 June 2012 diff hist +448 N File:Ferrybridge entrance .jpg This shows just how sharp and sudden the left turn for cars is once you've come off the roundabout at M62 J33. Even while I stood many cars went up the lorry access without realising.
• 09:0909:09, 18 June 2012 diff hist +407 N File:Ferrybridge amenity building.jpg The amenity building viewed from the south as approaching traffic would see it. This gives the impression of just how tall and triangular it is
• 09:0709:07, 18 June 2012 diff hist +386 N File:Ferrybridge Filling Station.jpg This shows the BP filling station to the south and east of the amenity building. Originally Esso and has recently changed to BP
• 09:0509:05, 18 June 2012 diff hist +350 N File:Ferrybridge shopping mall extension.jpg This shows the full mall extension looking towards the current entrance from the front
• 09:0309:03, 18 June 2012 diff hist +493 N File:Ferrybridge Foyer.jpg This looks from the foyer of the original services (WH Smith is to the right)back towards the mall extension and entrance. You can see the difference in roof heights and the window that would have been above the original entrance
• 09:0009:00, 18 June 2012 diff hist +510 N File:EDC seating area again.jpg To the right of the EDC servery and just above Costa and BK is the seating area for EDC. This is looking right towards the large windows which, to match the chalet roof, have a triangular design. The Fresh Express logo is still on the windows too
• 08:5508:55, 18 June 2012 diff hist +474 N File:EDC seating area.jpg To the right of the EDC servery and just above Costa and BK is the seating area for EDC. This is where full use is made of the height of the Chalet-style amenity building which makes it really bright and airy.
• 08:3408:34, 18 June 2012 diff hist +430 N File:Ferrybridge EDC.jpg Just beyond the mall extension and into the original services and to the right of the foyer is the EDC. Originally a large Granada Country Kitchen it has now shrunk.
• 08:3008:30, 18 June 2012 diff hist +599 N File:Ferrybridge shopping extension.jpg Looking from the front entrance into the shopping mall extension, built by Granada in the 1990s. This once housed Thorntons, Tandy, Ladbrokes, Clinton cards and several other brands. Today it has M&S Simply Food (left), amusements (right) and the rest is