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M6 Motorway

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23-06-1963. Downhall Green Road Bridge.
23-06-1963. Downhall Green Road Bridge.
Photo: Barrie.
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Item #: 29112
View from bridge looking north just over 1 month to the official opening of the M6. On the left is the Wigan South Link Slip Road towards the A49.

Comment by: BBJ on 27th March 2017 at 06:04

is it ok to post this elsewhere on an Ashton fb group please Barrie ?
they're just now wanting to make this a 2-way junction (this is jct 25) and cover everything in sight to the right in warehouses !

Comment by: Barrie on 27th March 2017 at 16:58

No objections to this being shown on another local website. That is why I decided to upload these construction photos of the M6 onto Wigan World. At least you can see what the area was like in the early 1960's. I'm doing something for a Scottish Motorway website at present and trying to piece together the original landscape before we altered it with a interchange junction in 1969. No photographic records of that area exist. Only the ones I took during the 2 year construction period.

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