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Britain By Car - A Motoring History

Markham Moor

A hamlet lying five miles south of Retford, at the junction between the A1, the A57, and the A638, and located on the former Great North Road.

The petrol station in the early 1960s, shortly after opening, source: Ned Trifle, via Flickr.

Markham Moor Service Station

A listed former petrol station with a distinctive hyperbolic paraboloid concrete roof.

Location
Alongside the southbound carriageway of the A1, at the junction with the A57 to Lincoln.

Date
Constructed 1960-61.

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