On the old google map, the old photos show it is a brick building next to a shell station
But on the new ones the petrol station is now demolished and the old building abolished
What did this old building used to be in its day?
Hears the map to it
next to the golf club
Looks like a little Chef.
shell and little chef used to be there…
Wasn’t this stretch the A603 from the end of the M11 all the way upto the A1 junction where the new A1(m) stretch now lies?
Think it used to be Little Thief ( Chef ) … then after Shell station closed became discount golf shop and I think was also “hot tub” shop … site has been disused for ages.
Think it possibly closed when Cambridge Services was built 
no no no
it was a LITTLE FRESH
Winseer:
Wasn’t this stretch the A603 from the end of the M11 all the way upto the A1 junction where the new A1(m) stretch now lies?
It was the A604, which ran from Kettering to Cambridge along the same route as the present-day A14 (although a few old stretches west of Huntingdon have been replaced or by-passed), and then onto Haverhill, Halstead and Colchester (and at one point Harwich). The Cambridge-Huntingdon bit was a trunk road from about the 70s onwards, linking the M11 with the A1 (the rest was just a primary route). The A603 still runs from Cambridge west towards Sandy and then Bedford, although the middle section (in fact most of it) is now the B1042.
Probably a little chef that closed down when Cambridge services opened up down the road.
No great loss
A little thief by the look of it. Looks like standard decoration for them.
the services at Cambridge are shell and so are where the ones at the above site
so they have a new perol station and plenty of eating places to replace little chef and the pumps
probably why its closed then
It was built as a Little Chef Restaurant and when they shut that location down it became an Indian Restaurant.
That didn’t last very long and when the Garage closed down the Restaurant soon followed.
fodentanker:
It was built as a Little Chef Restaurant and when they shut that location down it became an Indian Restaurant.
That didn’t last very long and when the Garage closed down the Restaurant soon followed.
Don’t remember the Indian restaurant … do remember the Shell garage.
The Rustler:
fodentanker:
It was built as a Little Chef Restaurant and when they shut that location down it became an Indian Restaurant.
That didn’t last very long and when the Garage closed down the Restaurant soon followed.Don’t remember the Indian restaurant … do remember the Shell garage.
It was also a Hot Tub shop.
Deffo a Little Chef, my dad was the QS for the company that built it around 1990
so what they going to do with it now then?
Ever day I see a pc Howard truck in there having a screw fix 
every day like clockwork, anybody on here?
Did companies buy up groups of ex little chef buildings? It seems that a number of them are a chain of ■■■ shops. Are the Indian restaurant ones chains?
IndigoJo:
Winseer:
Wasn’t this stretch the A603 from the end of the M11 all the way upto the A1 junction where the new A1(m) stretch now lies?It was the A604, which ran from Kettering to Cambridge along the same route as the present-day A14 (although a few old stretches west of Huntingdon have been replaced or by-passed), and then onto Haverhill, Halstead and Colchester (and at one point Harwich). The Cambridge-Huntingdon bit was a trunk road from about the 70s onwards, linking the M11 with the A1 (the rest was just a primary route). The A603 still runs from Cambridge west towards Sandy and then Bedford, although the middle section (in fact most of it) is now the B1042.
And the A14 ran North from Royston and right through the middle of Huntingdon over that narrow old bridge you can see from the present road. Now downgraded to the A1198. Way back in the olden days - this was the A1, or at least The Great North Road.