Motel Next To Sex Shop

In the 1970s a northbound garage and bungalow was built, as well as a southbound petrol station. A few years later the Sawtry North branch of Happy Eater opened next to the northbound garage, which became a full petrol station. In 1984 the Sawtry branch of Little Chef opened next to the southbound petrol station. The Toll Bar Cottages were demolished in the early 1980s.In the early 1990s the service area grew again, with a Travelodge being built behind the northbound petrol station. In 1996, as with all Happy Eater branches, it was converted to become a Little Chef and the two operated as a pair.Everything changed in 1998, when the old Ermine Street was replaced by the new A1(M) motorway. The upgraded road narrowly passed the old northbound services, taking away some of the petrol station. A new road, Toll Bar Way, was built to the west and provided access to what was left of the northbound side. Too much of the southbound side was taken by the new road and it had to be demolished. In theory it would have almost fitted in the gap between the A1(M) and the new B1043, but that’s before you account for the effect of the new embankments.The site therefore continued as a Little Chef and Travelodge, positioned on the old road and accessed from the nearby A1(M) J15. The motel closed in around 2004, while remarkably the restaurant lasted until 2007. At this point the site was abandoned.The remote and discrete Little Chef became Pulse & Cocktails Adult Superstore in September 2011. This may soon disappear as there is now a planning application to return it to a service area.

This explore been wanting to do for long time and the sex shop next door but unfortunately we could not find a way in the sex shop but still we enjoyed and had a laugh on this explore.

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