Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge, view east, 29 April 1996
Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge, view east (see all photos of the same view)
Unlike some sections further west, there is no road surface on the motorway here yet, but a significant length of the road bed has been prepared and the cutting at Brimmicroft is essentially complete.
Structure 19 (Leeds-Liverpool Canal underbridge)
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Sir James Drake
County Surveyor and Bridgemaster for Lancashire in the 1950s and 60s, Drake was instrumental in the motorway revolution.
