Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, setting a seal into the concrete inauguration slab for the London to Yorkshire Motorway (M1) at Slip End

Date:: 24 Mar 1958

Location:: M1, Junction 10, Slip End, Central Bedfordshire

Reference:: JLP01/08/051269

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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Sir Owen Williams, the Consulting Engineer, is stood next to Harold Watkinson. At the inauguration ceremony, Harold Watkinson also set off a klaxon horn as a signal to the drivers of the excavating machines to begin work. The ceremony was attended by Sir John William Laing and Sir John Maurice Laing. Among the guests were representatives of the five counties which the road will pass through.

This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20.

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This is part of the Series: JLP01/08 John Laing Photographic Collection Black and White Negatives; within the Collection: JLP01 John Laing Photographic Collection

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Ceremony