Broughton, High Street 1966
Photo ref:
B718010
More about this scene
The High Street may look quiet and rural, but five years earlier this street was pounded with traffic day and night. The cars parked on the pavement gives a hint of the traffic problems caused by people heading to the Lakes or southwards. In the summer time and on Bank Holidays, you could be an hour just getting through this mile-long village. The Preston by-pass opened in 1959, and the motorway from junction 32 near Broughton to junction 33 at Hampson Green opened six years later. That gave the villagers a little of their peace back.
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