Douglas Parade Servo, Williamstown

Written By Campbell Mattinson

The iconic petrol station on Douglas Parade, Williamstown, known as Panteli's. This image was taken in 2021. All images are copyright Campbell Mattinson.

The Pantelis Service Station on the corner of Yarra Street and Douglas Parade, Williamstown was one of the last full service petrol stations in Melbourne. The Pantelis family started this business in the early 1980s and closed shop in March/April 2024. These images were taken between 2021 and 2023. The front canopy of the iconic Pantelis Douglas Parade service station was bulldozed in 2024. In early 2026 the old shop and workspace area was still standing. Reports of the site being redeveloped as a modern/standard servo conflict with other reports that it will be developed as apartments.

Campbell Mattinson

This post was written by Campbell Mattinson. Mattinson is a former chief editor of the Halliday Wine Companion book, former editor of Halliday magazine, former editor of Australian Sommelier Magazine and founder of The Winefront business. He is the author of five books on wine – four of which were bestsellers (The Wine Hunter, the Big Red Wine Book 2008, the Big Red Wine Book 2009, and the Big Red Wine Book 2010).

Mattinson is also the founder of the Mattinson Photography business.

Campbell Mattinson has been an independent journalist, wine critic and photographer for forty years. He’s the only Australian to have won the Australian Wine Communicator of the Year Award more than once. He’s a past winner of a Louis Roederer International Wine Media Award; is the author of the award-winning book The Wine Hunter; and is the author of the best-selling novel We Were Not Men. He’s also a winner of a St Kilda Film Festival Award (as writer-director) and is a former winner of the national Best Australian Sports Writing Award. In 2026 three of his photographs were short-listed for the World Food Photography Awards.

Campbell Mattinson, who is 100% independent, has tasted between 5000 and 10,000 wines each and every year for the past 25 years. He tastes blind, in comparative brackets, as often as is practicable.

Campbell Mattinson is a journalist, a photographer, a filmmaker and a wine critic. In all of these mediums his prime motive is to tell people's stories.

https://www.campbellmattinson.com
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