Roads UK

Part 3 of the M1 Construction

Part 2 of the M1 Construction

Part 1 of the M1 Construction

SPAGHETTI JUNCTION

In 1958, the first British motorway opened with huge celebration, and, over the next decade, 1,000 miles of road were built across open countryside...

When the first British motorway opened in 1958, it seemed to promise a drive into a world of prosperity and freedom. This programme takes a journey...

This series pays homage to Britain's motorways -- the people who built them, the people who use them and the people who risked their lives to stop ...

A short piece of film about British motorists being unaccustomed to Motorway driving, 1959 onwards.

A Standerwick Leyland Atlantean double-deck coa...

Footage from 3 November 1959 of the opening of the motorway that came to be known as the M1.

Half an hour after the motorway [M1] opened another p...

Ernest Marples Opening Britains's first motorway.