The motorway, which was first proposed in the 1930s, and conceived as two separate routes, was opened in stages between 1971 and 1976, with construction beginning at Pole Moor and finishing in Tarbock on the outskirts of Liverpool. The motorway…
Taken before the restoration of the canal in the 1980s this is the weir on Colden Water where it meets the river Calder near Stubbing Square footbridge.