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Standish Motorway M6 approach Shevington Moor

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Junction 27
Junction 27
Photo: Peter Worthington
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Item #: 22033
1963: Night time View South, from M6 Motorway bridge at Crow Orchard Road, Shevington Moor, Standish, showing on and off ramps.

Comment by: Scholes Malc on 29th November 2012 at 16:11

Two features missing off the motorway which are there today

Comment by: Bob on 29th November 2012 at 16:49

Footbridge

Comment by: Peter Schofield on 29th November 2012 at 17:00

Malc - would they be no central reservation barriers abd lighting? I lived in Shevington from 1952 to 1970 and remember the building of the M6 very well. If I remember correctly the girders that were used to build the Gathurst Viaduct were brought by road through the village.

Comment by: Scholes Malc on 29th November 2012 at 20:13

correct Peter - no barriers & no lighting columns

Comment by: Lizzie down under on 30th November 2012 at 00:09

I too watched th M6 being constructed at the junction of Pepper Lane and Mossey Lea road where the road bridge was built. Great fun watching the big machines cut into the earth. It was all finished befor we flew to Australia in 1964!! Cheers.

Comment by: Freda on 30th November 2012 at 10:26

Don't forget ---- NO SPEED LIMIT !!!
My hubby was an ambulance man at this time, and the tales he can tell are not for the squeamish.

Comment by: Mick on 30th November 2012 at 11:37

Our house is not there as well

Comment by: Lizzie down under on 30th November 2012 at 18:07

Freda, I used to stand on rhe bridge and watch the traffic and you are right some of the speeds they used to do especially the sports cars they used to fly!!! Cheers!!

Comment by: Peter Schofield on 30th November 2012 at 21:31

Like I mentioned previously I watched them construct the motorway not knowing at that time that between January 1979 and January 1984 I would be patrolling it as part of the Greater Manchester Police Motorway team and to the latter end of my police service as an accident investigator. Some of the incidents that I attended were not for the squeamish as Freda has mentioned with regards to her husband.

Comment by: Diane R on 30th November 2012 at 23:29

What about 1960s? When all hell let loose on November 5th. Think it was 1969? Does anyone remember that?. My uncle was fireman that night!!!

Comment by: Mick on 30th November 2012 at 23:58

Diane R. I was a member of the AFS and on that night we went to the fire station as back up for bomfire fires and as it happened there was no call outs.

So we went to catch the last bus home to Shevy but the fog was very thick and the bus wasnt running so somebody said try the trains so we went and managed to get one to gathurst and as we where walking up gathurst lane we could here the skidding vehicles and crashing sounds coming from the motorway.

Comment by: Freda on 1st December 2012 at 09:31

This tells the story,
http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=19383&fullsize=1

I hope that someone can supply a link to it.

My husband was on duty that night too. There was no Junction 26 at Orrell at that time - So from Billinge they had to go to Ashton junction 24 to get on the M6 northbound, and they almost became a part of the crash scene.
Something made him pull off the road an up the grass banking a split second before another HVG travelling at speed ploughed into the standing traffic. It was absolute Mayhem.
Also, Councelling for people after accidents like this was a thing of the future.

Comment by: Freda on 1st December 2012 at 16:32

I've tried to do a link-

[url="http://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=19383&fullsize=1"Link[/url]

Comment by: Mary Nethercott on 18th April 2014 at 16:48

remember hitching a lift many a time from here to Stonehenge.:-)

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