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Work is in hand on the bridges for that road already, but the carriageways are awaiting the final planning authorisation. We trust that Mr Marples will make this one of his most urgent responsibilities. The day Jack Sears hit mph on the M1 motorway. How Autocar writers would fix Britain's roads and transport.

Notes from a car motorway pile-up - does emergency braking work? Related articles. Latest Drives. Ferrari Competizione review. Cupra Formentor VZ2 1. View all latest drives. Brooks celebrated the metropolitan and international modernity of this new motorway, which appeared in sharp contrast with the rurality and Englishness of the surrounding countryside. This was particularly evident in the earliest motorway service areas at Newport Pagnell and Watford Gap which were completed in mid and quickly became fashionable destinations for motorists and a popular hang-out for young people.

As Susanne Greaves, a regular visitor to Newport Pagnell service area, reflected somewhat nostalgically in The Times in Along it, on a Saturday night, would swarm the Morris Minors, XK Jaguars and Norton motor bikes, eating up the miles at incredible speeds in search of the bright lights. Their destination? Small villages and towns such as Trowell, Toddington and Newport Pagnell have gained national renown due to the use of their names for service areas, while the M1 and other motorways have become the spaces from which many travellers experience the British landscape.

The M1 may now appear as a fairly ordinary, essential and unloved feature of our motoring infrastructure and national landscape, but it is worth remembering that this rather faded, grey structure was once celebrated for its modernity, as the future of British motoring and travel.

Dr Peter Merriman is senior lecturer in human geography at Aberystwyth University. The M1 was an important addition to the cultural landscape, somewhere for a plot to unfold, and a place of excitement, modernity, danger and adventure for the teenage characters in both books, which enabled young boys and girls to read about the exciting new spaces of this modern motorway.

Many motorway users and service area visitors purchased postcards as personal souvenirs or to post to relatives, and a vast array of motorway ephemera was consumed by the public in different settings in different ways — including this M1 silver enamel charm above , a souvenir to join other trinkets on a charm bracelet.

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