Building of M62 and creation of Scammonden Dam

[ludocrat]

28? Pull the other one, it's got peat on it! Seriously, though, did people age faster in those days or just look more grown-up? Mind you, my dad (who's 70 this year) said he doesn't remember ever being a teenager. It didn't exist in the 1950s. You were in shorts and then suddenly you were a sort of junior grown-up and then, when you hit 18, you were just, well, a man.

I, on the other hand, still behave like teenager. Should be ashamed of myself - and building motorways.

[melina001a]

@ludocrat It's just that some people just age faster than others

[Nigel16032009]

Interesting video. If the weather was an almost constant problem and the Pennine terrain extremely difficult why wasn't a twin tunnel built to take the M62 through this area? Would've saved spoiling that landscape. Be just like Mont Blanc only shorter!

[britdemo]

i live in cleckheaton j26 and can hear the m62 and its 2 miles away from my house

[colemanno1]

would of been better if they interveiwed more stout paddys

[zaxxonuk]

I live near Hudds. and have always wanted to see how it was when this was constructed (I was born in '72 after it opened). What I do not understand is the dam further up the motorway (after the bridge) on the R/H/S seems they missed the walkway above the spillover in the middle! (or was it health & safety issue?)

Thankyou for posting this, I've waited a long time to see footage like this!

[track8fodderstompf]

Theres a walk way across the edge of the dam?

I'd be shit scared to even go on it!

[38Highbury]

the one the farmhouse in the middle overlooks? by Turnpike Inn? its not a proper walkway/bridge to anywhere, no road access, so no need for the expense of a bridge.

I suppose they just made it accessible for pedestrians when they built it but they shut it off about 15 years ago as people kepy wanging stuff and themselves off.

[weaville]

Not sure which of the Scammonden wardens you are - but thanks for this. We live here (Hudds side) and I love the comments about the weather - nothing changes!!