View east from Marsh Lane to Leeds-Liverpool Canal, 29 April 1996
View east from Marsh Lane to Leeds-Liverpool Canal (see all photos of the same view)
Marsh Lane is at the bottom of the picture. In the middle distance, Marsh Farm bridge has steelwork in place spanning the road bed; beyond, a short section of the motorway has been surfaced.
Date
29 April 1996
(see all photos from this date)
Direction of view
East
Structures visible
Structure 17 (Marsh Lane overbridge)
Structure 17a (Marsh Farm 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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Mixed Signals
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