View east from Brimmicroft footbridge to Riley Green 1, 17 July 1996
View east from Brimmicroft overbridge to Riley Green (see all photos of the same view)
A base layer of the road surface has been laid all the way from the canal to Riley Green interchange. Across it, in the middle of the picture, one of the two spans of Brimmicroft bridge is now in place.
Date
17 July 1996
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
East
Structures visible
Structure 19a (Brimmicroft overbridge)
What's new
Signs and sensibility
The one great attempt to make London’s streets logical - and how one retired chauffeur’s favourite routes changed the way you get around the capital.
A bridge under troubled bridges
A bridge that was ruined by another bridge, and a type of highway planning beyond any of the UK’s worst nightmares.
The monster seen from below
What might it have been like to stand in one spot and witness the arrival, and the uncertainty, of plans for an urban motorway in West London?
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M6 Hanchurch-Lymm
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