226 Garages and Service Stations

Philip Butler, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell , FUEL

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FUEL Publishing
04 September 2025

Individual photographers

Small garages and service stations are a vital - but fast disappearing - part of Britain's automotive landscape. Often independently owned and sited in idiosyncratic buildings, they are rightfully celebrated and sensitively documented in this essential book.

You might use a local garage to change a tyre or replace your exhaust, but when was the last time you pulled over and took a good look at the building itself?

In the spirit of Ed Ruscha's Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), photographer Philip Butler has done just that. Over six years, he's travelled the length and breadth of Britain photographing these diverse, eccentric and idiosyncratic buildings.

As motoring became popular in the early 1900s, the need for mechanical expertise to service, repair, refuel, and sell vehicles soared - and the 'garage' was born. From the Mock-Tudor fad of the 1920s via the Streamline Moderne of the 1930s, to the simple Modernist rationalism of postwar Britain, each era has produced a distinct automotive architecture. With the introduction of the Ministry of Transport (MOT) vehicle test in the 1960s, demand accelerated still further. A diverse array of structures was utilised - churches, cinemas, railway arches, fire stations, shops, factories - all proved versatile enough to find second lives as garages.

As the era of the combustion engine draws to a close, Butler's enchanting photographs of 226 Garages and Service Stations document the charm and personality of these survivors of the petrol age.

By: Philip Butler, FUEL
Edited by: Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell
Imprint: FUEL Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 200mm,
Weight: 780g
ISBN: 9781739887896
ISBN 10: 1739887891
Pages: 238
Publication Date: 04 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Philip Butler is a Worcestershire based photographer focusing primarily on documenting the remains of Great Britain's interwar architecture. His other books include London Tube Stations, Philip Butler, Joshua Abbott (2023), and Odeon Relics - Nineteen-Thirties Icons in the Twenty-First Century, an annotated series documenting the surviving buildings constructed by the iconic cinema chain in the 1930s. Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell have been publishing critically acclaimed books on design and architecture since 2004.

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226 Garages and Service Stations

Philip Butler, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell , FUEL

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