Sujet

Construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), Staffs, 20/09/1961 Creator: John Laing plc.

Légende

A view of Lytag being used as infill on Bridge 360 during the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing a worker with a broom sweeping the lightweight aggregate between reinforced concrete beams. This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

Date

1961

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B15_447

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

81,8Mo (5,2Mo) / 45,1cm x 45,5cm / 5326 x 5370 (300dpi)

Mots clés

motorway road building UK England people male work man men cap engineering worker country construction guy British English headdress beam beams concrete location infrastructure century Britain sweeping concept civil engineering B&W Staffordshire broom headgear m6 head-dress Sixties Construction Industry FLAT CAP black & white black and white building materials B W 1960s 20th century workers reinforced concrete TGN working photograph road building aggregate Historic England John Laing plc Laing John plc roadbuilding Lytag