Sujet

M6 Motorway, Hyde Lea, Stafford, Staffordshire, 19/07/1961. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A view of the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing concreting in situ of the large post-tensioned beams on Bridge 306 (Barn Bank Lane bridge), with a crane lowering a concrete hopper to the team working on the bridge. This road bridge, which is located at SJ9211419999, opened in March 1962. The photograph was published in September 1961 in Laing's monthly newsletter 'Team Spirit'.

Date

1961

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A84_272

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

80,7Mo (4,7Mo) / 44,8cm x 45,1cm / 5290 x 5329 (300dpi)

Mots clés

motorway road England work job engineering worker country occupation bridge bridges scaffold scaffolding British crane cranes English structure concrete location infrastructure century Britain profession construction worker concept civil engineering B&W Staffordshire m6 road bridge stafford hopper Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white B W lowering 1960s 20th century workers TGN working photograph road building Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding Barn Bank Lane Bridge