Sujet

M1, Junction 10, Slip End, Central Bedfordshire, 07/09/1959. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Harold Watkinson, the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, examining the inauguration slab at Slip End during a tour of the London to Yorkshire Motorway (the M1). This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

Date

1959

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A84_199

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

111,5Mo (1,8Mo) / 60,6cm x 46,1cm / 7154 x 5447 (300dpi)

Mots clés

motorway road England people male man men stone politics engineering country guy British English political slab inscription location infrastructure century Britain civil engineering bedfordshire B&W politician fifties minister 1950s m1 Conservative Construction Industry black & white black and white B W politicians 20th century inscribed Conservative party decade TGN Tory Minister of Transport photograph road building Harold Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding Harold Watkinson Watkinson