Mancunian Way ............. a little bit of excitement in 1967

Now I bet there will be more than a few people who would want to nominate this as one of the most boring picture postcards of all time.

But that would be so unfair, given that that the concept and construction was bold, leading the Manchester Guardian to comment that the “Mancunian Way is surprisingly good.  

The actual structure is extremely light and elegant in appearance”.*

And I am not going to disagree, with a civil engineering project which was ten years in the planning and construction and is as much a part of our past as the Town Hall, Free Trade Hall and Piccadilly Gardens.

That said and on its first day, fewer motorists used it than were expected, this was in the view of the Police because few people yet knew about it.

Location; Manchester

Pictures; The Mancunian Way, circa 1990s, from the collection of picture postcards of Rita Bishop

*Mancunian Way; will today be opened officially by the Prime Minister, Ashworth, Graham W, The Guardian, May 5th, 1965