
Region: North West
A627(M) Rochdale to Oldham Motorway.
List of material held in the Lancashire CC Record Office
Opening Brochure. December 1971 County Surveyor’s Department. Paper by Resident Engineer describing the early stages of the contract. November 1970 Paper by road contractors Agent describing early stages from his viewpoint. Paper by bridge contractors Agent describing early stages from his viewpoint. A627(M) Rochdale-Oldham Motorway. 1/5000 Scheme Drawings (10 No sheets). Lancashire County Council Rochdale-Oldham Motorway Link A627.(M) with M62. W M Johnson Minutes of the Lancashire County Council, Highways and Bridges Committee. Lancashire County Council Various contemporary notes. Lancashire County Council Opening Ceremony. -
ITEM DESCRIPTION DATE AUTHOR/ORIGINATOR 1
Lancashire County Council2 Papers from Symposium 'The Construction of Motorways in Lancashire' marking twenty-fifth year of the Lancashire County Engineering Society. W M Johnson November 1970 W Brown
Sir Alfred McAlpine & Son Ltd-November 1970 R Parish
Leonard Fairclough(AMEC) Ltd3
A paper describing the conception and development of the scheme, the construction and its aftermath.
A mixture of research material and personal recollections of the Resident Engineer.1999 W M Johnson. 4
(Currently deposited at the Environment Directorate, Cross Street, Preston)1969/70 5
A briefing note prepared for ‘couriers’ on visits to siteJune 1971 6
CC/MBM/66 - CC/MBM/85
Deposited LCCRO1955 to 1974 7
Random papers produced by the Lancashire County Council before and during the currency of the contract of varying value.
Boxes 2643, 2654 and 2673 Deposited at Greater Manchester County Records Office, Manchester? 8
Photographs of participants in opening ceremony taken at Chadderton Roundabout.
One sheet of proofs and two prints of James Drake being interviewed by a radio reporter17th January 1972