Heralding a new age of transportation and making it easier for ordinary folk like you and me to get to the seaside, 1958 was the year Great Britain saw its first motorway, the Preston Bypass. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened the motorway to great fanfare on the 5th of December.
Some were alarmed that with horses and carts not being allowed on motorways, there might be an adverse effect on the trade of rag-and-bone persons.
Such fears, however, soon proved to be unfounded.
An Automobile Association patrol van on the hard-shoulder....
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