{"id":37,"date":"2023-09-10T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T14:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2024-04-14T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T11:30:22","slug":"about-tanworth-garage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"About Tanworth Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0768-1024x388.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0768-1024x388.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0768-300x114.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0768-768x291.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0768-1536x582.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_0768-2048x776.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The garage as it stands today<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tanworth Garage has been servicing and fixing cars for several decades now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally the site was used by the Summers family back in the 19th Century to cast large cog wheels and other components for use in the local flour mills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Village-1024x653.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Village-1024x653.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Village-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Village-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Village-1536x979.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Village-2048x1306.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tanworth village in the early 1900&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the services offered by the Summers family was shoeing for horse&#8217;s and making steel bands for cart wheels, this is probably what lead to working on cars once they started to appear in the early 20th century. Cars were first worked on in 1914 and automobile work increased to such a level that an extension was added in 1924 for the sole purpose of working on cars, this is now the MOT bay for Tanworth Garage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\" src=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tanworth-garage-1900s-1-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tanworth-garage-1900s-1-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tanworth-garage-1900s-1-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tanworth-garage-1900s-1-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tanworth-garage-1900s-1-1536x1032.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/tanworth-garage-1900s-1-2048x1375.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The building as it looked in the early 1900&#8217;s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1950&#8217;s the garage sold new cars along with petrol sales as well as servicing and repair of cars. Over the years the site has been used as a main agent for Morris Cars, Austin followed Fiat cars during the 1980&#8217;s. It also acted as a sales agent for Raleigh bicycles in the 50&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"751\" src=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Austin-dealers-1950s-1024x751.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Austin-dealers-1950s-1024x751.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Austin-dealers-1950s-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Austin-dealers-1950s-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Austin-dealers-1950s-1536x1127.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Austin-dealers-1950s-2048x1503.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The garage when it was an Austin dealers and petrol station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today Tanworth Garage continues to offer servicing, repairs and MOT&#8217;s for all types of cars from classic cars to the latest high performance vehicles. The business is still independently run and takes great pride in its history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Garage-MOT-bay-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Garage-MOT-bay-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Garage-MOT-bay-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Garage-MOT-bay-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Garage-MOT-bay-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Tanworth-Garage-MOT-bay-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanworth Garage has been servicing and fixing cars for several decades now. Originally the site was used by the Summers family back in the 19th Century to cast large cog wheels and other components for use in the local flour mills. One of the services offered by the Summers family was shoeing for horse&#8217;s and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/?page_id=37\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Tanworth Garage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tanworthgarage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}