50 years of the M1

For the first half of my life, I lived in a Yorkshire village, and from the bedroom of my later home in the village, I had a distant view across fields and woodland to the traffic passing along the M1 motorway near Sheffield. I couldn't hear the traffic, but could see it on a clear day...

Today, the M1 is 50 years old, although it was only 10 years ago that the full length was completed.

The first motorway services opened at Watford Gap.
Today, a sign was opened suggesting that this is where the North meets the South....

A report on the opening of this sign in The Telegraph.

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