Hill House Farm overbridge, view west, 4 October 1994
Hill House Farm overbridge, view west (see all photos of the same view)
Boundary fences have been installed and topsoil has been cleared from the line of the motorway, but no work has yet started on Hill House Farm bridge. In the distance, a start has been made on Gorton Brook underbridge.
Structure 15 (Gorton Brook underbridge)
What's new
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?
The road that made no sense
It was the UK's only single-carriageway motorway, and twenty years ago it ceased to exist. This is the story of the strange fascination it held, and of my place in history.
Have you seen...
Scammonden Bridge
If you've ever been on the M62 across the Pennines, you'll know the one. It's the huge arched bridge 120ft above the road. And this is what it's like when you're standing on top of it!
