Belisha: the card game 07 February 2023
Last week we went looking for some of the places pictured in the 1938 road-themed card game Belisha. This week you can play it for yourself.
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The lost world of Belisha 02 February 2023
In 1938, a card game called Belisha was published to promote road safety, featuring the sights of a journey across the UK. Where are they now?
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Hello, here's my ridiculous side project
An introduction to what I write, and why I write it, and where my strange new road sign simulator fits in to all this.
London, in a new light
It was specially designed never to be noticed. And now it's disappearing, nobody has noticed its absence. It's London's own bespoke street light.
The Ringways Map is here
The wait is over! The full map of the Ringways, London’s unbuilt urban motorway network, is now online. Not even the system's planners had anything like this.
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Liverpool Inner Motorway
There's almost no evidence of Liverpool's 1960's plans for an inner ring road on the ground - but the motorway that never materialised would have been astonishing. The full details on the route, and the missing part the M62, are here.
