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2024-03-29T00:01:25+00:00text/html2008-07-20T19:46:05+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/27608?a=Ronald+LoachRonald Loach51.355257 -2.742404ST4862 : Paradise Roadhouse
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/890220
This photo shows the main petrol filling station constructed in about 1932/1933
and also the addition, restaurant, bar etc. constructed in about 1935. This complex was destroyed by fire in the '80s and is now the site of a 90 room hotel.
See also [[890110]] and [[889102]].text/html2008-07-20T18:37:45+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/27608?a=Ronald+LoachRonald Loach50.667936 -3.536675SX9186 : 1931/1932 The Wobbly Wheel
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/890110
The Wobbly Wheel was used as an example by the Devon Planning Authorities of what a good layout for a Petrol Filling Station should be like.
Once the Station was operational Ronald Loach, the owner and developer, was off again building another petrol filling station on the A38 at the bottom of Redhill near Wrington in Somerset called Paradise Roadhouse http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/890220 . See also [[889102]].text/html2008-07-19T20:48:40+00:00https://www.geograph.ie/profile/27608?a=Ronald+LoachRonald Loach50.668026 -3.536677SX9186 : In 1929 known as Highway Motors
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/889102
Soon after this photo was taken the new Highway bypass (A38) diverted traffic away from going through Kennford and thus no more petrol sales. Not to be outdone my father then built the "Wobbly Wheel" a new petrol filling station at the corner of the old village main road and the new Highway bypass - see [[890110]] and [[890220]].