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Photo Album
Mildred on the Move McAlpine PPS Joint Venture yard Atherton, Manchester.
Mike Wilkinson's Abbott mobile gun Mike's Beavertail soon to be replaced with 8 wheeler Hiab
The Old Leyland clock has found a new home in Kendall after spending many years on The A6 at Shap Fell.
I found another interesting memorial on the old A6, about 2 miles north of the Broughton traffic lights
heading North on the right hand side just before the village of Barton and only about 2 miles from my home.
I must have past this one thousands of times and never noticed until road works on the A6 forced me to halt by it.
I just had time to read it before the traffic started moving and I resolved to stop by and take a picture next time
I passed that way. Bear in mind that in 1869 the old A6 was not much more then a cart track between Preston
and Lancaster
I have been trying to get a picture of this memorial for some time now but it's location just outside the Lancs Police
Motorway division (under the River Ribble bridge by the Tickled Trout) has made it difficult to stop and park.
Sunday 3rd of August returning from the Transpennine Run and with my mate Ian Halsall driving I managed to
get a shot as we drove past. As you can see it commemerates the opening of Britain's first Motorway known
as the Preston By-Pass. Opened 5th December 1958 by the then Prime Minister the Rt Hon Harold MacMillan
Follow these links to sites about The Preston By-Pass
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