A view of the construction of the Stafford By-pass on the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), looking north across Rising Brook towards the Highfields Farm access bridge and showing Laing excavators and a bulldozer carrying out peat removal. In the album, the typed caption below the photograph reads 'Looking north across Rising Brook where large pocket of peat (50,000 ) is being removed and replaced with clay backfill prior to the motorway embankment being constructed. Background shows Highfields Farm access bridge, which is virtually complete.' The work on the Stafford By-pass started
A view of the construction of the Stafford By-pass on the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), looking north across Rising Brook towards the Highfields Farm access bridge and showing Laing excavators and a bulldozer carrying out peat removal. In the album, the typed caption below the photograph reads 'Looking north across Rising Brook where large pocket of peat (50,000 ) is being removed and replaced with clay backfill prior to the motorway embankment being constructed. Background shows Highfields Farm access bridge, which is virtually complete.' The work on the Stafford By-pass started in June 1960 and was opened to traffic in August 1962.
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Photo credit: © Historic England Archive/Heritage Images / Alamy / Afripics
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