Up the junction

Before car ownership became the God-given right it is today, roads were regarded as exotic. People from nearby villages turned up with deckchairs and picnics to watch the first section of the M1 being built in 1959, and postcards regularly featured scenes of car parks, service stations and one-way systems with captions such as ‘High Street, Frimley’ or ‘Traffic Interchange, Town Centre Redditch’.

Part of the attractiveness of these scenes can