Sujet

Construction of the M6 motorway, Eden, Cumbria, 28/03/1968. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

Two men blasting and drilling rocks during the construction of the M6 Motorway through the Lune Gorge. Rock excavations used in the construction of the motorway took place at a quarry at Dillicar Knott and also at Jeffrey's Mount, both close to the site of the motorway.

Date

1968

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England

Notre référence

HRM21A84_402

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

79,1Mo (4,9Mo) / 44,4cm x 44,6cm / 5249 x 5268 (300dpi)

Mots clés

motorway hillside road hill hills England people male work man men rocks rock mountain mountains engineering worker country guy British geography Cumbria English machine machinery location infrastructure century Britain drilling concept civil engineering fell blasting B&W m6 Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century workers geographical feature TGN working photograph road building Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding Lune Gorge