Petrol is very much in the news at present, which set me thinking about times past in Brigg when we used to fill up at Sass's garage - now the site of the hand carwash, adjoining The Monument.
Some 30 years ago you could put a fiver's worth of three-star in your Mini and it would last you the best part of a week.
Back then, you could also get an attendant to come out and do the filling up for you!
Sass's also did servicing and sold BMW cars, like Minis and Marinas. And it was a sad day when, in the early 1980s, the family firm had to call it a day.
The Lincolnshire Times newspaper, based at 57 Wrawby Street, used to fill up its company vehicles - all three of them - at Sass's, where we had an account.
The firm was also a valued advertiser. So The Times lost out in several ways when Sass's ceased trading.
The buildings used by the company seem to have survived pretty much intact down the years, having seen quite a few uses, including (for a time in the early to mid-1980s) a video rental shop.
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