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ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1b1fc7d0.jpg" border=0 width="508" height="381" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Link to Mike's Web site  <A HREF="http://home.btconnect.com/Wilkinson-Plant" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://home.btconnect.com/Wilkinson-Plan"><U>http://home.btconnect.com/Wilkinson-Plant</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="1bcaf9d0.jpg" border=0 width="431" height="413" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <IMG SRC="1bde89f0.jpg" border=0 width="232" height="415" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>The Old Leyland clock has found a new home in Kendall after spending many years on The A6 at Shap Fell.</B></div> <div> <B>I found another interesting memorial on the old A6, about 2 miles north of the Broughton traffic lights </B></div> <div> <B>heading North on the right hand side just before the village of Barton and only about 2 miles from my home.</B></div> <div> <B>I must have past this one thousands of times and never noticed until road works on the A6 forced me to halt by it.</B></div> <div> <B>I just had time to read it before the traffic started moving and I resolved to stop by and take a picture next time</B></div> <div> <B>I passed that way. Bear in mind that in 1869 the old A6 was not much more then a cart track between Preston</B></div> <div> <B>and Lancaster</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="5dd4b320.jpg" border=0 width="843" height="562" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>I have been trying to get a picture of this memorial for some time now but it's location just outside the Lancs Police</B></div> <div> <B>Motorway division (under the River Ribble bridge by the Tickled Trout) has made it difficult to stop and park.</B></div> <div> <B>Sunday 3rd of August returning from the Transpennine Run and with my mate Ian Halsall driving I managed to</B></div> <div> <B>get a shot as we drove past. As you can see it commemerates  the opening of Britain's first Motorway known</B></div> <div> <B>as the Preston By-Pass. Opened 5th December 1958 by the then Prime Minister the  Rt Hon Harold MacMillan</B></div> <div> <B>Follow these links to sites about The Preston By-Pass</B></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.cbrd.co.uk" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cbrd.co.uk"><U><B>http://www.cbrd.co.uk</B></U></A><B>             </B><A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIbKQJ8E68" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIbKQJ8E"><U><B>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnIbKQJ8E68</B></U></A></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="878d9c00.jpg" border=0 width="985" height="704" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>The following story and picture was sent to me by Bill Stothard. Bill wrote in his first email how he had come across a picture of a</B></div> <div> <B>Leyland Clock and decided to forward it to me for inclusion on the website. In 1970 Bill was invited by the late Geoff Bland of</B></div> <div> <B>Monk Bretton near Barnsley to accompany him and his crew to London and subsequently onto Brighton via the HCVC rally</B></div> <div> <B>in Geoff's restored 1938 Leyland Lynx  registration number JM 4104.  Geoff had decided for nostalgic reasons that the return</B></div> <div> <B>trip to Yorkshire would be made on the old A1 Great North Road using where ever possible the original road. Half way through the </B></div> <div> <B>email Bill had a change of direction, he had convinced himself the picture of The Leyland Lynx was taken north of Stamford on a</B></div> <div> <B>slight incline and that Geoff had pulled over for a photo shoot of the Lynx with the clock in the background. Bill was wondering what</B></div> <div> <B>had happened to the clock and googled "Leyland Clocks" to find out, visiting several websites he discovered non related to the </B></div> <div> <B>location outside Stamford. He did find one further south on Vinegar hill just North of Alconbury and has revised his thougths on</B></div> <div> <B>the location of the clock in the picture. He apologises for the quality of the picture but I am sure you will enjoy it as much as I did.</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="973d55f0.jpg" border=0 width="981" height="607" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <B>Leyland clock situated in Leyland</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="9c6eff30.jpg" border=0 width="1007" height="755" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>