Dead Transport Artefacts: Abandoned Petrol Station and Little Chef, Kentford, Suffolk - 8th September 2005

Alongside the A14 near Kentford in Suffolk lie the remains of Kentford Filling Station North and a Little Chef, both abandoned a couple of years ago and both crumbling into the ground, aided and abetted by passing squatters and vandals, by the looks of it. Nosher stops off on the way home from work in Cambridge one evening to have a look round and take photos. It's slightly unsettling; something like a scene from a post-apocopolyptic Sci-fi film such as Day of the Triffids or 28 Days Later, with the thought that there might still be squatters lurking in the ruins whilst the traffic drones by obliviously on the nearby highway. The door to the Little Chef has been broken open, so there's even a chance to timidly peer inside.

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A lorry-load of scrap tiles have been dumped

A lorry-load of scrap tiles have been dumped

The tiles have are like some sort of ceramic beach

More tiles, close up, look like books

The old petrol station shop

Garage shop, in a state of slight disrepair

An HGV's windscreen lies shattered on the ground

More broken glass

A wrecked Daily Fail newspaper box

A station identity

A wheel-less whellbarrow

The derelict Little Chef building

Looking through the windows

There's a hot, fetid smell inside the Little Chef

The furniture adds to the post-apocalyptic feel

A Little Chef bin

Diesel-Engined Road Vehicles, this way

Shop shelves still remain

Another view of the trashed shop

Discarded cassette tapes litter the area

Petrol-station detritus

A pile of broken concrete

The way in is blocked