People watching excavating machines starting to remove topsoil from a field, during the inauguration ceremony for the first section of the London to Yorkshire Motorway (M1)

Date:: 24 Mar 1958

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

Reference:: JLP01/08/051273

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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Description

Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, set off a klaxon at the inauguration ceremony as a signal to the drivers of the excavating machines to begin work.

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