Sujet

Construction of the M6 Motorway, Stafford, Staffordshire, 20/06/1961. Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A view of the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing a team of workers laying dry lean concrete to the north of the Section B office. The work on the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), between junctions J13 to J16 started in June 1960 and was carried out by John Laing Construction Ltd. Section B was 6 1/2 miles in length between Whitgreave and Beech.

Date

1961

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B15_439

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

81,2Mo (4,6Mo) / 45,0cm x 45,2cm / 5312 x 5342 (300dpi)

Mots clés

motorway road building England people male work man men engineering worker country construction guy British English laying machine machinery concrete location infrastructure century Britain concept civil engineering B&W Staffordshire m6 stafford Sixties Construction Industry black & white black and white B W 1960s 20th century workers TGN working photograph road building Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding