Secrets of The Motorway - M60

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Жыл бұрын

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At last.. it's time to tackle Manchesters orbital motorway... the M60. It's a story of many bodge jobs and cancelled projects.. nothing new then. In this episode we'll be taking in abandoned railway stations, shopping centres and nuclear bunkers. All of this and more from the famous M60 motorway.
In this series we aim to explore what our motorway network is hiding. As we drive along at 70mph..ish...we simply just wouldn't be aware of what we're missing. This series aims to uncover some of the hidden secrets our motorways have to offer.

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@k.r.baylor8825
@k.r.baylor8825 Жыл бұрын
For those who enjoy Palladian architecture, the closing scene was shot at Heaton Hall's Old Town Hall colonnade folly. This structure formed the front of Manchester's 1822 first town hall building, but was reassembled stone-by-stone in Heaton Park in 1912 to save it from the wrecking ball. It's been closed to visitors since 2012 but remains structurally sound (so sayeth the engineers). Today, the city is trying to find the money to restore it, but until then it's fenced off so small bits and pieces won't fall on visitors like Jon. Viewers of this channel are grateful for that foresight.
@v1v3k31
@v1v3k31 Жыл бұрын
Mancunian Brandenburg Gate
@corsaandy94
@corsaandy94 Жыл бұрын
Blankety Blank theme at the end RIP Lily Savage/ Paul O’Grady
@David_D.
@David_D. Жыл бұрын
A nice nod to Paul O'Grady at the end there. 👏🏻👏🏻
@AndrewG1989
@AndrewG1989 Жыл бұрын
Indeed. Rest in Peace Paul O’Grady.
@Blade_Daddy
@Blade_Daddy Жыл бұрын
An American who finds your detailed motorway videos very fascinating. BTW, on the map you displayed, I spotted my mother's birthplace - Mossley. (She was a war bride.)
@andysvehiclehistorychannel
@andysvehiclehistorychannel Жыл бұрын
There was American troops based in Uppermill Dobcross and Greenfield in WW2 always makes me think of the film Yanks
@jonntischnabel
@jonntischnabel Жыл бұрын
I'm surprised you didn't mention that Barton bridge was the first work undertaken on the entire motorway network. And NO this isn't the Preston bypass, that was the first section OPEN.
@iancrosby3475
@iancrosby3475 Жыл бұрын
Oh I love a pub quiz fact and that one has gone right to the top of the pile
@kriss_b
@kriss_b Жыл бұрын
Lovely tribute Paul O'Grady at the end with the correct era theme used also. Thanks John
@dickoon
@dickoon Жыл бұрын
If you hadn't pointed it out, I would've done!
@harryarmitage6056
@harryarmitage6056 Жыл бұрын
You neglected to mention that the section of the M60 between junctions 17 and 15 is known colloquially by locals as "Death Valley". Putting a motorway across a river where fog tends to gather has had some awful consequences in the past.
@jeremyskelton8067
@jeremyskelton8067 Жыл бұрын
One bit of trivia I've observed is that when they stole part of the M62 to make the M60, they kept the junction numbers, so junnction numbers on the rest of the M60 were fixed by the ex-M62 ones. It is most obvious if you are travelling M62-M60-M62.
@jacksonmacmanus1001
@jacksonmacmanus1001 Жыл бұрын
i like the way you ended with the theme tune to "blankety blank", in tribute to Paul O'Grady
@malphadour
@malphadour 8 ай бұрын
The Pyramid roundabout is known by locals as Hollywood Roundabout. Also my Grandad was the forman on the M63 built between the A56 junction down to where it used to end at the Cheadle (Rosco's) junction. This part of the M63 was extended through Stockport in the 80s before eventually being linked with the M66 which started life coming down from Blackburn. Also interesting fact (ok it's all relative) the M63 section through Stockport is built on marsh land. This is why it was originally surfaced with concrete as this can flex without cracking. The plan was to then surface over this with tarmac once it had been run on for 20 to 30 years and it was deemed that it has settled - actual effective long term planning that worked.
@Mr_Spliffy
@Mr_Spliffy Жыл бұрын
Nice tribute to Paul o Grady at the end. Respect 🙏
@davidjones332
@davidjones332 Жыл бұрын
Not all of the Trafford Park Industrial Estate has disappeared, which is hardly surprising as it was once the largest industrial estate in Western Europe. To compliment that, Heaton Park is in fact the largest municipal park in Western Europe.
@thomash2806
@thomash2806 Жыл бұрын
That ‘suspension’ bridge isn’t one; it’s a cable stay bridge.
@jjc2896
@jjc2896 8 ай бұрын
the more you know ⭐️
@MrMorphback
@MrMorphback Жыл бұрын
From the appropriately cheesy intro music through to the John's on-point dry humour this is a strangely compelling channel. This was the all the info I didn't realise I needed about the dull stretches of tarmac I've spent so many years pounding. Good stuff sir.
@AutoShenanigans
@AutoShenanigans Жыл бұрын
Thanks mate, glad you like it :D
@markas850
@markas850 Жыл бұрын
I used to work in the building behind the pyramid when it was the CooP. The building as the company logo on the roof to be seen by the planes landing at Manchester Airport.
@CharityAngelSpectrum
@CharityAngelSpectrum 3 ай бұрын
Wait, what? Theyre actually sorting Simister Island out? About bloody time
@TheCabrooster11
@TheCabrooster11 Жыл бұрын
Well done John for making it though another extremely exciting episode, the level of humorous sarcasm is increasing with every week. But the entire series does make me wonder how anything actually get built in this country.
@David_Crayford
@David_Crayford Жыл бұрын
Between tea breaks ;-)
@88jerryw88
@88jerryw88 Жыл бұрын
Forty years of driving on motorways and I had never given a second thought to ghosted slip roads or never completed flyovers. This channel has me questioning the reason for them every time I see them now.
@peterharris3006
@peterharris3006 Жыл бұрын
The Heaton Park tower has a much taller sibling at Stokenchurch, which is a prominent feature of the Bucks/Oxfordshire landscape. So prominent that you managed to miss it when you did your M40 video.
@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian
@andrewdolinskiatcarpathian Жыл бұрын
It now sadly looks so bare as most of its antennas have been stripped off 😢
@MattBrunton1965
@MattBrunton1965 Жыл бұрын
Surprised Manchester Ringway didn't stick his oar in😉
@acme181169
@acme181169 Жыл бұрын
You appear to have slowed down your delivery just a smidge!!!!! It's perfect, feels pacey not rushed
@soulcube222
@soulcube222 Жыл бұрын
Stockport pyramid was constructed using limestone from a quarry 200 miles away in Offerton. They then used sound frequencies to manipulate and levitate the quarried stone into place. Fascinating structure.
@jimmydesouza4375
@jimmydesouza4375 Жыл бұрын
I would say Aliens built it, but everyone avoids Mancunians, even Aliens.
@kathystanding2229
@kathystanding2229 Жыл бұрын
One of my dad’s mates was involved with making the new signs when the M63 was changed into the M60 - he decided just sticking a 0 over as many 3s as they could be bothered finding would do - in a totally different font size and on a different shade of blue background.
@sproutandkidneysoup2296
@sproutandkidneysoup2296 Жыл бұрын
It took decades before all the roadsigns in south Manchester showing directions to the M63 were replaced. There is a roundabout in Wilmslow that didn't change to the M60 until about 2018, and there were still one or two others dotted about at that time.
@abbotbusoni4311
@abbotbusoni4311 Жыл бұрын
Ah yes the great Pyramid of Geezer, one of the 7 wonders of the corporate world!
@foxhound5699
@foxhound5699 Жыл бұрын
Trafford Park is still a huge industrial area. The Trafford Centre was actually built on old farm land not industrial land. I used to play on that old farmland. Jesus I'm old.
@Snowy1of1
@Snowy1of1 Жыл бұрын
Great Vid Jon (John), nice to hear more about the M60, local Mway to me. Every year we as Bikers (can hear the sighs now), perform a Ring of Red on the M60. Called the Ride of Respect, on or around Remembrance Day. 4000 bikes and up usually attend. Everyone meets at Birch Services Westbound on the M62. Everyone is released gradually with Riders up front who keep an eye on things. We ride the full circle and end up back at Birch Services Eastbound. From there, people will stick around talking, or go somewhere else for food and drinks. Massive day with tons of planning. 4000+ Mbikes on a Mway in an hour can cause a little disruption. Wicked sweet awesome 👌
@Dan23_7
@Dan23_7 Жыл бұрын
I filled up at Birch today. We (work) can only use BP 😫 There was a guy there with a Ducati (don’t know the model) it looked quick. How ironic I just read your comment. That run sounds mega 🏍 👍🏼
@glenjones6980
@glenjones6980 Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure Martinzero has covered some of the industiral, railway and canal infrastructure, he's certainly done a lot of stuff around the Irwell and is well worth checking out for anyone who likes the history of buildings from days gone by.
@GMac2776
@GMac2776 Жыл бұрын
That Trafford centre looks excellent. Makes a difference from the bland cubes they normally build.
@TalesOfWar
@TalesOfWar 5 ай бұрын
Simister REALLY needs rethinking, it's a constant bottle neck on the entire road network around here. When it's blocked up the traffic overflows to the regular roads which aren't designed for that kind of volume at all so it turns into a car park, or a very slow moving traffic jam.
@paulmatthews4293
@paulmatthews4293 Жыл бұрын
Some of this makes me feel really old. I remember the traffic delays on the M63. I remember not being too sure of directions (Long before the days of satnav) on my way home from a colleagues house in Romiley. I saw the M66 and thought “Ah! That will take me somewhere I know!” only to find out there was a big gap in the M66. I remember the trafford centre being built, and thinking it was going to be called Dumplington.
@stephencalvert6040
@stephencalvert6040 Жыл бұрын
I was at THAT illegal rave. I still like to tell the story about the bunker whenever I drive past Worsley with somebody who I haven't bored to death already.
@lunny74
@lunny74 Жыл бұрын
I bet it was great ?
@stephencalvert6040
@stephencalvert6040 Жыл бұрын
@@lunny74 absolutely ;-)
@TOPCLIPSCSGO
@TOPCLIPSCSGO Жыл бұрын
Couldn't care less about motorways, this guy is just a good presenter.
@jamesjameson4566
@jamesjameson4566 Жыл бұрын
Better than Philip schofield
@ThePrinceandPrincessofWails
@ThePrinceandPrincessofWails Жыл бұрын
​@@jamesjameson4566 that ain't hard, a Danish 🎂 dessert is a better presenter than Philip I am LGBTQ we buy any car gin club me me Schofield 😆
@316Minecraft
@316Minecraft Жыл бұрын
I spend many an hour each week with my car in the M60 Car Park, this was fascinating, thanks 😊
@MemskiBobSki
@MemskiBobSki Жыл бұрын
Fortunately I go the other way, heading out of Stockport towards the M56 joining at the Pyramid. The entry slip road warning sign towards Manchester seems permanently light up as 40.
@somnambulist7705
@somnambulist7705 Жыл бұрын
Ah, now Sunday is complete
@tobyjackman3212
@tobyjackman3212 Жыл бұрын
This is the best video I've ever seen about anything
@dvyt433
@dvyt433 Жыл бұрын
The structure at the end is the Colonnade and was originally the facade of the old town hall on King St in Manchester. It was shifted to the park in 1912
@Jawst
@Jawst Жыл бұрын
Wooooo I'm very surprised you don't mention more about illegal raves!! Between 2000-2007 there were always at least two of three rave sites throughout the UK every weekend! Most were just few seconds from the motorway or even under the motorway itself
@Anonymoususer_2023
@Anonymoususer_2023 8 ай бұрын
The M60 where it meets with the M62 and M66 at Simister Island interchange needs a massive upgrade including a new slip road that would allow traffic on the M60 motorway to continue in a clockwise direction and to avoid the already busy interchange with the massive roundabout.
@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe
@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe Жыл бұрын
That Big Transmitter in Heaton Park, As you were not too sure about the recent history of the thing it's a pity there isn't a fellow KZbin vlogger in the Manchester area you could have Asked 🤔.
@NeillWilkinson
@NeillWilkinson Жыл бұрын
I’ll continue where you left off. In the early 2000s, about 2003 from memory, not long after the completion of upgrades between junctions 18 and 24, several sections were flooded to the point of impassability after heavy rain. Like really deeply. Presumably because of underestimating drainage needs or something. This eventually got solved and it doesn’t flood any more. 👍
@Snowy1of1
@Snowy1of1 Жыл бұрын
I read this in Jons (Johns) voice LOL Wicked sweet awesome thanks. 👌
@malphadour
@malphadour 8 ай бұрын
The contractors didn't build the new part of the motorway as per the design, so all the cambers and super elevations are wrong which is why the east side of the m60 is the worlds longest skid pan.
@Smelter57
@Smelter57 Жыл бұрын
That gravel pit got a better fate than the ones next to the M66 that are land fill.
@squish_nerd
@squish_nerd Жыл бұрын
Yay. I love my house being featured on this episode. 😊
@Madmark50484
@Madmark50484 Жыл бұрын
Several missed opportunities. At the end of the video you should of said for the first junction skip to this time stamp essentially putting the user in a infinite loop. The railway section would have been a good collab with Jago Hazzard. But I’ll give you 10/10 for the salute to Paul o Grady at the end
@mightymartinpetrov
@mightymartinpetrov Жыл бұрын
Excellent stuff. You've nicely split my origin story in 2, as I'm from Stockport and so the initial roundabout is a junction I know very well. Indeed, I remember that bit of motorway being built and opening in 82, as it previously ended at the turnoff for Cheadle. I remember losing my mind at the prospect of going on "the new Motorway" (I was 7). And given that to get anywhere south, (or indeed, to Liverpool, which was where I went to University) you had to get that stretch of motorway, I can say I know it like the back of my hand. Looking forward to part 2, as I assume the entire episode will be taken up by the insanity of the Bredbury exit.
@mightymartinpetrov
@mightymartinpetrov Жыл бұрын
(also - you're saving the Viaduct for the final drone shot - the rural countryside shots are obviously great, but nothing beats Stockport viaduct.
@hairyairey
@hairyairey Жыл бұрын
​@@mightymartinpetrovI raise you Harringworth Viaduct!
@AutoShenanigans
@AutoShenanigans Жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot mate. Bredbury get's a "brief" mention in part 2 :D You'll be pleased to hear that Stockport viaduct gets a mention as well :D As for the drone outro... it didn't quite go to plan.
@gookazade1
@gookazade1 Жыл бұрын
The day/night the “m60” was opened miles n miles of narrow lane closures were put on as many of the drains had collapsed ultimately leading to the contractors demise only a few yrs later. I loved putting them closures on then goin to the Stockport Riley’s snooker club til the call came to remove the closures.
@AutoShenanigans
@AutoShenanigans Жыл бұрын
Woops, sounds like someone cut some corners there!
@deaddropholiday
@deaddropholiday Жыл бұрын
That entire area is one giant traffic hellhole. Particularly the A-roads. People have starved to death in traffic jams.
@farrance
@farrance Жыл бұрын
When you cover the A303 all hells gonna break loose
@DisasterLieveldeOfficial32
@DisasterLieveldeOfficial32 Жыл бұрын
Yesss another Sunday with Secrets Of The Motorways!
@jo2952
@jo2952 Жыл бұрын
Between J1 and 2 of the M5 theres a canal, a canal going over the top of that canal ..... with a railway bridge going over the top of that ...... with the M5 going over the top of that ..... "Spon Lane Junction"
@patrickocallaghan4007
@patrickocallaghan4007 Жыл бұрын
Also missed the Bridgewater Canal Swing Bridge next to Barton High Level Bridge. Only swinging aqueduct in the world bit of a mad design.
@macstyle2012
@macstyle2012 Жыл бұрын
They have bus stops on the motorway where I live - there is one at every exit on the slip roads and at most petrol stations. If a passenger wants the bus to stop to pick them up then they press a request button in the bus stop - which illuminates a bus sign on the motorway so the driver knows whether to pull off or carry on.
@orwellboy1958
@orwellboy1958 Жыл бұрын
Hmmm. Bus shelter on a slip road, was Sadiq Khan involved?
@shaunpeveritt
@shaunpeveritt Жыл бұрын
Hi John, Junction 5 of the M60 with the A5103 had planned to be the Princess Park motorway. Another urban motorway similar to the M67. Somewhere between Junction 14 & 15, the M601 was to be built, quiet interesting story. Keep up the good work!
@AviatorCameron
@AviatorCameron Жыл бұрын
Its also a very busy section of road since most traffic coming from the M6 south to Manchester uses the road via the M56
@robbflynn4325
@robbflynn4325 Жыл бұрын
Hi from the US. Interesting stuff. Driven around the M60 many, many times. Recall it had some horrendous rush hour bottle necks. In the morning, joining from the M61, especially heading towards the direction of the Trafford Centre. Evening rush hour the same going the other way, joining the A34 very bad also.
@Dan23_7
@Dan23_7 Жыл бұрын
It’s still exactly the same, probably worse now.
@robbflynn4325
@robbflynn4325 Жыл бұрын
@Dan-je1hk I can imagine. I drove on the M60 daily from 2001 to 2016 and saw how the volume of traffic got worse over this period, on the M60 and beyond. It spurred me on to get away from it all. I now live in rural central Pennsylvania, well away from any traffic mayhem and overcrowding. Life is too short!
@01mememememe
@01mememememe Жыл бұрын
Every reason to get another spot on your channel for Ringway Manchester youtube, sadly it was not forthcoming.
@captricharddee3634
@captricharddee3634 Жыл бұрын
There is a Pyramid in Stockport? Ok, Pharaoh'nuff.
@MrTaffynoel
@MrTaffynoel Жыл бұрын
Gi’za break
@pts1971
@pts1971 Жыл бұрын
It's actually styled on mexican pyramids. The area was due to have more pyramids built and be called kings valley, alas no more were built. Bukta sportswears factory used to be situated near to the pyramid.
@leopold7562
@leopold7562 9 ай бұрын
Junction 5 was designed like that as part of the proposed Princess Parkway motorway. The A5103 is practically a motorway from the Sharston Bypass up to almost Burnage, and there’s loads of space for the existing Princess Road to be widened all the way up to the Mancunian Wa
@ulazygit
@ulazygit Жыл бұрын
Jolly splendid … again, another motorway used by me for a short while back in 2009/2010 when contracted to a company in Manchester - good to see an over-engineered, costly set of ‘slip roads’ to remove the need for leaving and rejoining the same road, when a simpler, more effective and cheaper option can be ignored. Love engineers …
@northseawolf
@northseawolf Жыл бұрын
It must be Sunday, I can smell roast beef, the neighbours are washing their car, and John is delivering British infrastructure in the only way it should, pure deadpan 👍🏻
@onemansjunk01
@onemansjunk01 Жыл бұрын
You crack me up 😂😂😂 don't ever change your wicked sweet awesome 👌🏼👍🏼🤘🏼
@philcoogan7369
@philcoogan7369 Жыл бұрын
As I understand it the embankments on the approach to the Barton high level bridge were first work to begin on building any motorway in the UK although the M6 beat it to opening. Really surprised you didn't mention the former A6144(M), Oh and don't forget to mention the junction where the slip road drops joining vehicles in the fast lane in the next episode.
@nowster
@nowster Жыл бұрын
And the usual Bredbury Scissors that are next to it.
@RealThunderPRO
@RealThunderPRO Жыл бұрын
The ONLY full ring road, the M60! A motorway that I have been on MANY times!
@prime1971
@prime1971 Жыл бұрын
Here for the sarcasm and the outro, doesn't disappoint
@BibtheBoulder
@BibtheBoulder Жыл бұрын
Titchmarsh: "I can make boring gardening seem interesting" John: "Hold my beer"....
@tsr207
@tsr207 Жыл бұрын
Excellent video - Stockport pyramid - there was to be a number of them in that area (Kings Valley)- but as you said they went bankrupt. Spent a number of years working there - very quiet inside.....
@LeeCorne
@LeeCorne Жыл бұрын
Yes, I was going to say that. Kings Valley was meant to resemble the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, with multiple pyramids of differing sizes in a similar layout, but they went bust making the first one and now the rest of the estate consists of uninspiring rectangular office blocks and industrial units. I believe the Co-Op set up its online bank 'Smile' in the pyramid.
@greyseal9798
@greyseal9798 Жыл бұрын
Another great video, though I am surprised you didn’t mention the former A6144(M) single carriageway motorway that got downgraded in 2009 as part of the M60 widening scheme at Junction 8.
@paulsengupta971
@paulsengupta971 Жыл бұрын
That sounds like it needs a video.
@DSPrints_
@DSPrints_ Жыл бұрын
Wicked sweet awesome video
@Eledore
@Eledore Жыл бұрын
Great one again Jon, the humor, the editing and the sharp remarks with text. Just jolly.
@sarahstrupinski6863
@sarahstrupinski6863 Жыл бұрын
Your witty sarcasm really makes me laugh! Keep going. X
@Un-Grand-Central
@Un-Grand-Central Жыл бұрын
2:53 in the distance you can see the now disused and abandoned Fiddlers ferry power plant set for demolition sometime in the next 2 years
@Amathusukx
@Amathusukx Жыл бұрын
It amazes Me how far away you can see Fiddlers Ferry, I see it all the time when I drive down from Oldham showing how flat Cheshire really is.
@davepatsson
@davepatsson Жыл бұрын
Great video, but as a local I'm surprised there was no mention of the Bredbury Scissors junction (J26) which is one of the weirder junctions on the network as the traffic flows cross each other, nor the slow corner nearby which I've heard is the tightest corner on the m-way network - or the 'junction to nowhere" (j6) where they didn't end up building the road into Manchester to link it up. It was right there while you were talking about the Sale Bridge! They're three of my favourite M60 facts.
@dickyr3295
@dickyr3295 Жыл бұрын
I’m hoping he’ll cover this in Part 2 next week
@timharrison8144
@timharrison8144 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, that Bradbury junction is bonkers….the whole motorway was done on the cheap. The Denton roundabout also looks like it was designed by a YTS employee…..the road markings are seemingly there to create a crash
@AutoShenanigans
@AutoShenanigans Жыл бұрын
Bredbury gets a "brief" mention in part 2 :)
@MrKpsuk84
@MrKpsuk84 Жыл бұрын
11:05 Blankety Blank!? I was expecting to hear Coronation Street (although maybe that'll be at the end of part 2)
@AutoShenanigans
@AutoShenanigans Жыл бұрын
It was going to be, but I switched it out cos Paul O Grady/Lily Savage.
@sarkybugger5009
@sarkybugger5009 Жыл бұрын
@@AutoShenanigans There's a brilliant reggae version of the Corry tune here on KZbin! kzbin.info/www/bejne/apXTqn6YgLFqlac
@davejones542
@davejones542 Жыл бұрын
great. Manchester is underrated.
@claywalsh6817
@claywalsh6817 Жыл бұрын
Heaton park tower was the BT tower in the 1980’s
@jsp7202
@jsp7202 Жыл бұрын
I was born in the UK and can remember as a child going down the M6 a lot in the 1970's, which fueled my interest in major highways. I never drove in the UK but I used to be a trucker in North American and learnt a lot about secrets of the roads I went down, old railways, old road designations etc. Now I get to learn about the UK motorways, thanks for an interesting series!
@frasermitchell9183
@frasermitchell9183 Жыл бұрын
Hi John I use this motorway quite a lot on the east side to get to IKEA at Ashton-under-Lyne of all places, (wife's favourite destination !). A couple more minutes would have allowed you to mention the non-existent motorway down from Jn 25. If you look at the OS map you'll see the land corridor for this is still vacant. At Stockport the M60 squeezes through the Stockport railway viaduct which is, on good authority, the largest brick-built structure in Europe. Just here a railway ran underneath the viaduct, and parts of it can still be seen and even explored if you have time. The M60 is a reall collection of spatchcocks, (quick fixes) switching back and forth from 4 lane to 3 lane and one section with only two lanes. However, I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies, in that we do actually have it !
@Korschtal
@Korschtal Жыл бұрын
Thanks for this: I remember seeing the pyramid a number of times, ironically from trains passing over the Stockport viaduct.
@Hey.Joe_Ridley
@Hey.Joe_Ridley Жыл бұрын
Is that the Stockport Viaduct designed by a Victorian civil engineer who had the foresight to know that many years later the M60 would have to pass through two adjacent arches?
@K-o-R
@K-o-R Жыл бұрын
Aww, no mention of the really cool bridge at Besses o' th' Barn just after Molyneux Brow?
@-abacchus
@-abacchus Жыл бұрын
Yay..! Nice to see John's finally got a new pair of shoes..!
@tardismole
@tardismole Жыл бұрын
That beauitful archway at the end. What is it and why is it not in use? And I never thought motorway junctions affected clothing. Learn something new every day.
@MrGreatplum
@MrGreatplum Жыл бұрын
That’s the front of Manchester Old Town Hall that was moved to Heaton Park in 1902 (as a folly?)
@tardismole
@tardismole Жыл бұрын
@@MrGreatplum Thank you. Ugh. Folly. Yep. As a student of archaeology (years ago) I learned with a dispassion about follies. Still, it is shame that a lovely gate is fenced off like that. That kind of attention to detail should be enjoyed.
@madonion2370
@madonion2370 Жыл бұрын
this is so dull but yet entertaining, your a wizard
@alexn8583
@alexn8583 Жыл бұрын
I would say it looks more like an Aztec pyramid than an eygptian pyramid
@eddiemaylor2716
@eddiemaylor2716 Жыл бұрын
I have driven the M60 a lot, and learned some stuff from today's video.
@simonabbott7323
@simonabbott7323 Жыл бұрын
King's Reach (as the area with the pyramid is known) was due to be graced by several other pyramid-like structures (the number depends on who you speak to) but the developer only managed one before going bust. The area behind the bridge over the Mersey where you film your intro was a 1930's housing estate. A bomb landed on a couple of houses there in December 1940. In 1979, when the adjacent M63 (now M60) was being built, they demolished a cul-de-sac at the bottom of the estate which encroached slightly on the path of the motorway. Plus, I don't think the residents fancied being a spit away from the clockwise carriageway. In later years, the estate was beset by crime and by 1998, the council had emptied the estate of humans and started emptying the estate of houses. Only roads, stumps of lamp posts and the odd brick gatepost remained. Over the years, nature took over. More recently, the estate was completely cleared down to soil and a new industrial estate rose from its ashes, so to speak. Junction 1 used to be numbered J12. The gentleman who ran a company called Junction 12 Tyres was not best pleased when it was renumbered.... The junction between the M60 and the A5103 seems over-engineered because the authorities were considering upgrading the 5103 to a motorway, which is why, in the late 60s and 70s, when looking to your left Manchester-bound, you would have seen a strip of land not built on. Actually, the part as you come off Manchester-bound is built to M-way standards. Where the A5103 meets Greenheys Lane further towards Manchester City Centre, there is space there for a huge junction as it was planned that Greenheys Lane would give way to the Manchester Inner Ringroad, which never came to fruition. I well remember driving over Barton Bridge (over the Ship Canal) when they were extending to 3 lanes. The works seemed to go on forever! As you approach J25 of the M60 driving clockwise, you will see on your right a closed off section of tarmac that eventually fizzles out into grass. This was the put in as the slip-road to a failed A6(M) proposal. It could still potentially be incorporated into a road that links the M60 to the A555 where it terminates at High Lane. If you get onto the M60 travelling anti-clockwise at J25, you find your sliproad becomes the outside lane of the motorway, with faster traffic on the M60 to your left. Frightening!
@paul0gb
@paul0gb Жыл бұрын
The pyramid building is a great landmark when coming into land at Manchester Airport!
@aps-pictures9335
@aps-pictures9335 18 күн бұрын
Damn that last shot, what a waste that huge ruin is just locked away
@El_Smeghead
@El_Smeghead Жыл бұрын
Nice Paul O'Grady tribute at the end 👍👍
@davefb
@davefb Жыл бұрын
Loving the bit at 8.30 ish about all the bridges. I used to (well they odd time) cycle into manchester thru that area and was always struck by how on the surface it looks like a nice green wooded area. Yet look a little and do some digging (research wise ie google). You realise the whole area used to be a vast industrial area, coal mines, power stations and brickworks.
@philtucker1224
@philtucker1224 Жыл бұрын
Excellent John, the photography also superb mate. In particular the drone shots were on another level 😊
@andymoss
@andymoss Жыл бұрын
Brilliant! I grew up in Worsley so have spent many a happy hour scrambling all over the Top Secret Nuclear Bunker and surrounding lands. I was Christened in St. Marks Church. Thanks for another great episode.
@dalegribble9101
@dalegribble9101 Жыл бұрын
Top vid as usual mate Always enjoy the random outro song. Was this one a little nod to Paul O Grady/Lily Savage?
@bryemycaz
@bryemycaz Жыл бұрын
Probably but Les Dawson was from Manchester as well.
@AutoShenanigans
@AutoShenanigans Жыл бұрын
It was.
@_M_O_E_
@_M_O_E_ Жыл бұрын
ye, that bunker was a great rave spot
@TheAllstar420
@TheAllstar420 Жыл бұрын
The M60 bus stops are a close resemblance to my Cities Skylines way of building lmao
@leonkernan
@leonkernan Жыл бұрын
I've stayed at the Luxor in Las Vegas, the resemblance to that pyramid is incredible.
@markemarkpsv1
@markemarkpsv1 Жыл бұрын
It’s “Greater Manchester” in Stockport. The building company that built the “pyramid” and the “AA” building, over looking the Cheadle junction, was “Rush & Tompkinson.” Great informative video. 👌😎🤘m-E-m
@anonUK
@anonUK Жыл бұрын
4:38 "If Albert Speer had designed the Brighton Pavilion"
@Teddystream.
@Teddystream. Жыл бұрын
The Railway mentioned closed because of a house falling down an old construction shaft of the Black John Tunnel, further down the line , which was then filled in.
@mancuniangamecat8288
@mancuniangamecat8288 Жыл бұрын
There was originally more than one pyramid planned before the company went bankrupt.. And there wes a green light on the top that pointed up, you could see it for miles away.
@LuciousDeMorte
@LuciousDeMorte Жыл бұрын
Perfect choice of outro given recent passings ❤
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