A crowd of people gathered to watch the inauguration ceremony for the London to Yorkshire Motorway (M1) at Slip End near Luton

Date:: 24 Mar 1958

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

Reference:: JLP01/08/051275

Type:: Photograph (Negative)

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At the inauguration ceremony, Harold Watkinson set a bronze seal into a concrete inauguration slab and set off a klaxon 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 also representatives of the five counties which the road was to 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