Sandy Lane overbridge, view west, 4 October 1994
Sandy Lane overbridge, view west (see all photos of the same view)
A start has been made on the diversion that will carry Sandy Lane while the bridge is built to carry it over the new motorway, but at this stage, the road is still running on its original line.
Date
4 October 1994
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
West
Roads visible
B5256 Sandy Lane
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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M1 under construction
Pictures taken as the first section of the M1 was being built in 1958-9, with all its unique architecture still under construction.
