Title

Construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), Staffordshire, 01/05/1962. Creator: John Laing plc.

Caption

A team of workers making a bridge beam during the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6). This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

Date

1962

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM21B15_450

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

78,5Mb (4,8Mb) / 17,8in x 17,1in / 5348 x 5128 (300dpi)

Keywords

motorway road building UK England people male work man men engineering worker country construction guy bridge bridges British crane cranes English structure beam location infrastructure century Britain concept civil engineering B&W Staffordshire m6 Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century workers TGN working photograph road building Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding