Chronology Maps

1961 1962 1963

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Completed Route Name Start End
M1 (NI) Donegall Road - Lisburn J1 Broadway J6 Saintfield Road
M5 Lydiate Ash - Strensham J4 Lydiate Ash J8 Strensham
M50 Strensham - Brockeridge Common M5 J8 Strensham J1 Brockeridge Common
A1(M) Stevenage Bypass J6 The Clock J8 Corey’s Mill
M6 Stafford Bypass J13 Dunston J14 Creswell
M6 Creswell - Hanchurch J14 Creswell J15 Hanchurch

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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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Skelmersdale Link to M6

Bold plans and unrealised ideas for the New Town of Skelmersdale are set out with great ceremony and excitement in this book that marks the opening of a road that became the M58.