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I've seen many historic photographs of the Goblin Ha' but
this one is completely new to me.
An educated guess would put the date in the mid 1920's but I'll happily be
corrected on that.
Note the hanging "RAC" & "BP" signs which are probably
enamel on metal.
The petrol pump appears to be for "Shell" but clarity
suffers when that section of the picture is magnified.
These petrol pumps
had a glass advertising globe on the top which was illuminated at night.
At first I thought
the machine beside the door to the bar was an early type of compressed air
pump,
but on closer inspection it appears to be a weighing machine!
I think there was a Goblin Ha' bus service to Haddington
Railway Station as it was quicker to get the
Edinburgh train from there,
rather than Gifford.
Was the Garage purely to service the bus, and hotel residents
cars, or
did it also
serve passing motorists & those from the village?
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