Wigan Album

Nice picture Barrie. There are now traffic lights where the big sign is. I think the little bungalow is still there too

I like Barrie's picture as well Standisher, as it evokes memories of certain car drivers and bikers, who were eager to travel on the M6 for the first time. The Sixties . . . Ah!

As a lad in the 60s Junction 27 meant summer holidays . Usually to Torbay in my Dad's Ford Anglia.
I loved to tick off county signs on the procession south. Cheshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire , Gloucestershire, Somerset and finally Devon.
The M6, these days seems a much less exciting place.

Checked the bungalow out yesterday on the way to our tonking at Preston, yes it's still there !!

When the motorway was being constructed 1961-63, from memory I think an elderly couple lived in that bungalow.

I bet they weren't too pleased when they were told the M6 was going to be constructed below their back garden.