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Motorway base-laying JLP01_08_054742
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Motorway base-laying JLP01_08_054742
DAVENTRY, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE. Construction machines laying a dry-lean concrete base in Section D4 of the London to Yorkshire Motorway (the M1), as Laing workers dig a trench for central reservation drainage in the foreground.
Section D of the London to Yorkshire Motorway runs between Kislingbury and Dunchurch.
The caption beneath the corresponding album print notes the road is being laid to the east of Structure 113
Media ID 24021755
© Historic England Archive. John Laing Photographic Collection
1950s Civil Engineering Construction Motorway People Road Transport Work
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