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Description: | April 1972.
Image shows the M621 under construction. The route of the motorway is making towards Leeds with the view in the background showing the extent of the city at this time. The two tall blocks of flats in the top right hand corner are the Cottingley Towers, at 22 storeys they were at this time the largest tower blocks in the city. The bridge being built over the motorway is Rooms Lane Bridge, which was needed to provide access to the turkey farm which can be seen on top of the emmbankment just to the left of the motorway. Further down the motorway, farm animals and tractors were able to cross it by means of a tunnel underneath it. Much of the alignment of Rooms Lane was altered on this section. The next bridge across the motorway going off the bottom left hand corner was that over Asquith Avenue after which the M62 was reached at Gildersome roundabout. Photograph from the David Atkinson Archive. | License: | http://www.leodis.net/article.aspx?id=12 | Rights holder: | Leeds Central Library | Subjects: | m621 Rooms Lane Bridge Cottingley Towers Rooms Lane | Source: | Leodis - A photographic archive of Leeds | Identifier: | http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?id=20... | Go to resource |
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