bild

A view across the Keele Service Area during the construction of the Birmingham to Preston Motorway (M6), showing a team of workers in the foreground laying tarmac. In the album, the typed caption below the photograph reads 'This development carried out by the Company for Motorway Services Limited consists of main restaurant over the Motorway cafeterias and Transport cafes on both sides of the Motorway. This is a much improved version of the one at Newport Pagnell.' M6 Motorway, Keele Service Area, Keele, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, 28/11/1962. Creator: John Laing plc. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/HISTORIC ENGLAND)