1965 Pinxton construction of the M1 motorway 

I recall as a child watching the diggers from my grandparents back bedroom window on Alfreton Road. Then when it was opened the Sunday Afternoon trip to Leicester Forest East services to the posh wastress service restaurant on the bridge.

Another cool little video

The best thing about Spring 1965, is that I was born - Steve Hammond Kaye - amazing author:

What was the music used on this video

A lot less traffic on the roads back then.

The Bridge construction is Kirkby Lane, I didn't see Brookhill Lane on the video.

It's a calculator - but it's made from bamboo!

Some of the so called wide Boys who contracted for the work did low believing there was very much coal at relatively shallow depth which the NCB would pay them a good price for. However all they found was a number of empty Bell shaped cavities form wheres the Old Bell Pit miners and mined the coal many years earlier.

So apparently the M1 motorway would of destroyed the village of Pinxton. And on the borders of Nottinghamshire. And not far from South Yorkshire.