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Description: | View (possibly taken from St Catherine's Hill) of the construction of the M3 in the vicinity of what would become Junction 11, looking south towards Compton and Shawford.
The contractors depot and their temporary living quarters, i.e. caravans, can clearly be seen to the right. The line of trees behind the site still exist and border the old Roman road from Winchester to Compton and Otterbourne.
The embankment is where the motorway cuts through Shawford Down.
The River Itchen can be glimpsed through the trees on the right.
Hockley Viaduct can be seen behind the trees. This was opened in the 1891 to carry the Didcot, Newbury and Southampton Railway, but at the time of this photograph had been disused for about 30 years. It spans the Itchen Valley with 33 arches. It is the first use of concrete in the construction of a viaduct in the country, with the pillars being built of mass concrete, with some chalk infill and covered with a thin layer of brickwork. The arches are made of brick.
Reference:
Hockley Viaduct, Dr E. Course. Southampton University Industrial Archaeology Group Journal, no.5, 1996, p.1-3 | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Hampshire Library and Information Service - Hampshire County Council | Subjects: | building depot motorway road Shawford Down M3 construction Hockley Viaduct | Temporal: | start=1994-04-01; end=1994-04-30; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | John Brimfield | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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