Construction sites 1960's style

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Construction sites 1960's style

Post #1 by martyn williams » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:55 pm

[video]http://youtu.be/wJ-R-CuZlAk[/video]
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Post #2 by shane.c » Fri Sep 13, 2013 7:51 pm

Very good film thanks for posting,
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Post #3 by widget » Fri Sep 13, 2013 9:34 pm

Great old film Martyn, :claphands:
I live quite close to Stilton and the village seems nearly as busy now as when the great north road ran through it :lol: . The A1 village bypass shown in the film was upgraded to an eight lane motorway A1M in 1998. Amazing how things change in just a few years.

Ive added a photo of the first machine I saw when the upgrade started, one of Mainlands machines taking out the hedgerow just off Norman Cross roundabout, next to Stilton.

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Post #4 by tctractors » Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:06 am

I have a Mainland Hard Hat is it a collectors item???

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Post #5 by widget » Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:55 am

Dunno, try putting it on Feebay :lol:

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Post #6 by hoggie » Sat Sep 14, 2013 6:46 pm

We had our caravans at the back of the Stilton pub when doing the upgrade in 1998
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Post #7 by widget » Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:17 pm

hoggie wrote:We had our caravans at the back of the Stilton pub when doing the upgrade in 1998

Would that have been the Stilton Cheese?
I spent many hours on that job when I was fitting for Clee Hill. They had a large amount of kit hired out on there, that's why they opened a depot at Peterborough, It was very handy really having the job on my doorstep :lol:
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Post #8 by hoggie » Sun Sep 15, 2013 5:27 pm

yes we had seven or eight caravans behind the stilton cheese
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