Building Motorways Collection

Westway Flyover Collection
19 items

Severn Crossing M48 Collection
12 items

M4 Second Severn Crossing Collection
31 items

M6 Motorway Collection
82 items

Preston Bypass EAW073974
Preston Bypass, Lancashire. Britains first motorway under construction, photographed in November 1958. It was opened by Harold MacMillan in December

Motorway junction N071919
BROADSPRING WOOD, Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Aerial view. Junction 1A on the M40 joining the M25 motorway between Uxbridge and Gerrards Cross

Second Severn Crossing JLP01_20_021_16_34
A view of progress on the construction of the Second Severn Crossing, showing cranes on a platform for installing concrete caissons and a dump truck operated by Jones Bros

Rescue helicopter JLP01_20_021_17_08
A RAF Rescue helicopter hovering over the Second Severn Crossing construction site during an emergency rescue exercise. This photograph is from a batch appearing to show an emergency rescue exercise

Second Severn Crossing groundworks JLP01_20_021_16_20
A view of progress on the construction of the Second Severn Crossing, showing a Komatsu excavator working in the River Severn, and a recently installed concrete caisson behind

M5 Motorway construction JEH_22055_078
Clevedon, North Somerset, 1971. Construction of Junction 20 on the M5 motorway. ST4170

M5 Motorway construction JEH_22055_055
Banwell Road, Christon, North Somerset, 1971. Construction of M5 motorway. ST3857

M5 Motorway construction JEH_22055_050
Court Hill, Clevedon, North Somerset, 1971. Construction of M5 motorway. ST4372

M5 Motorway construction JEH_22055_047
Tickenham Hill, Clevedon, North Somerset, 1971. Construction of M5 motorway ST4572

M5 Motorway construction JEH_22055_046
Tickenham Hill, Clevedon, North Somerset, 1971. Construction of viaduct during M5 motorway construction works. ST4572

Spaghetti Junction EAW220279
Gravelly Hills Interchange, Birmingham. Junction 6 on the M6 motorway meets the A38 and A5127 in a complex known as " Spaghetti Junction"

Motorway junction JEH_22028_89
Almondsbury, Bristol. At the Almondsbury Interchange (Junction 15 on the M5 and Junction 20 on the M4) the M4 is carried over the M5

Avonmouth Bridge under construction JEH_22045_038
Avonmouth Bridge, Shirehampton, Gloucesterhire. This view shows work underway on construction for the M5 motorway. Work started in 1969 and the foundations

Severn Bridge
Grade I listed First Severn Crossing carrying the M4. It was by far the longest span in England when it was built. Gloucestershire. IoE 479259

Aust Services JEH_22049_020
Aust Services, Aust, South Gloucestershire. Large service station at the English end of the Severn Road Bridge, serving the former route of the M4 motorway

Road cutting JEH_22047_037
Court Hill, Tickenham, Somerset. Construction works for the M5 motorway included the creation of these precipitous cuttings. Photographed in November 1970 by Jim Hancock

Second Severn Crossing N010002
SECOND SEVERN CROSSING, M4 Motorway, Severn Beach, South Gloucestershire. View of the bridge at sunset

Second Severn Crossing N010003
SECOND SEVERN CROSSING, M4 Motorway, Severn Beach, South Gloucestershire. View of the bridge at sunset

Severn Bridge N110334
SEVERN BRIDGE. Gloucestershire. General view of the suspension bridge built in the 1960s. The bridge is picked out by warm sunlight

Motorway Services 1961 EAW094297
M1 MOTORWAY. Aerial view of the motorway and the service station at Newport Pagnell, after opening to all traffic in 1960

M6 Motorway construction JLP01_08_081804
EDEN, CUMBRIA. A view of the construction of the M6 Motorway through the Lune Gorge, showing dump trucks on the haul road leading from the Lawtland House viaduct and Roger Howe bridge

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