Cuerden embankment, view west, 3 April 1995
Cuerden embankment, view west (see all photos of the same view)
Work has started to create Cuerden embankment, which fills the bottom part of the picture, though at this point it is only a fraction of its eventual height. At the very bottom, Lostock culvert has been finished, but is still mostly uncovered.
Date
3 April 1995
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
West
Structures visible
Structure 4/4a/4c (M6 interchange bridges)
Roads visible
M6 motorway
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?
