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mel cunliffe
mel cunliffe
Photo: whups
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Item #: 25669
this is mel behind his house on downall green dr when they were building the m6 motorway .it,s not a good pic , so if anyone has any better ones then please put them on here.

Comment by: g p on 30th October 2014 at 14:24

where in d g was picture taken

Comment by: Stuart Naylor on 30th October 2014 at 16:18

The M6 through the Wigan area was built in the early 1960's but that picture looks like it was taken in the 1970's are you sure about the location and date of the photograph ?

Comment by: whups on 30th October 2014 at 17:37

yes , i have it on good authority that it was took when the work was being done on the m6 . it was took behind their house at downall green rd.

Comment by: Stuart Naylor on 30th October 2014 at 18:35

Whups
Disagree,, the car in the photo has a yellow number plate with black letters, the same as the number plates of today and they were first introduced in 1968 and the M6 had been open for a few years by then.
I am thinking that the picture could have been taken at the Three Sisters Lake, perhaps in that long hot summer of 1876

Comment by: MikeW on 30th October 2014 at 19:01

The car is a Wartburg 353 Tourist, launched about 1070. The bike has no front number plate, this requirement was dropped in 1975. I agree with it being Three Sisters

Comment by: Frank on 30th October 2014 at 19:19

A colour photo from Wigan, taken in 1876? and a car launched nearly a thousand years ago in 1070 - doesn't sound right somehow!

Comment by: Jinksi on 30th October 2014 at 19:30

Frank,Wigan has always been leaders rest have always followed us.

Comment by: Giovanni on 31st October 2014 at 09:54

I remember the M6 being built. In fact worked for Tarmac who constructed part of it. The route went thru a graveyard and the corpses had to be disinterred and reburied elsewhere!

Comment by: jathbee on 31st October 2014 at 12:18

That picture has just put me off my lunch.

Comment by: sammy on 3rd November 2014 at 11:34

this picture was taken over the three sisters jmmy conway

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