Probable been posted before, but still good to watch.
youtube.com/watch?v=qcabV_j4hEU
I like videos like this, many people don’t appreciate the time and effort men put in to make the roads they travel on.
I thought I was going to be seeing another of morgans flipflop mushroom brigade falling asleep on the 62 and ploughing their garden again… 
Respect to people who built it but c’mon… so much dramatization and overreacting… overrated… so people who build roads in Canada Skandinavia and Syberia are what - Superhumans or what…?
C’’ mon…
Yep - It’s grim up North!
I heard the owner(s) of that ‘little house’ stood their ground against the m/way developers… and won their ground. Not often that happens… eh ‘swampy’…
I always thought it was being miserable farmer types,they thought they would ask for plenty and get it…they didn’t hence marooned on the 62…har de har har… 
They are good watch, same as the first M1 stretch, 55 miles plus 132 bridges in 19 months is some going, makes modern road builders look like amateurs.
simon1958:
I heard the owner(s) of that ‘little house’ stood their ground against the m/way developers… and won their ground. Not often that happens… eh ‘swampy’…
I think it’s an old wives tale, apparently they were never offered anything as the land that the house stands on was not suitable for road building so the route was always to go round them.
simon1958:
I heard the owner(s) of that ‘little house’ stood their ground against the m/way developers… and won their ground. Not often that happens… eh ‘swampy’…
That’s actually a myth. Due to the terrain it was just easier to split the carriageway, similar to why the M6 splits around Tebay. The house just so happened to be there so there was no requirement to knock it down.
Pretty sure if the government had grounds to knock his house down to build a motorway, they would have issued a compulsory purchase order and done it regardless of how much kicking & screaming there was.
Or just what Rentadent said!
simon1958:
I heard the owner(s) of that ‘little house’ stood their ground against the m/way developers… and won their ground. Not often that happens… eh ‘swampy’…
And speaking of Swampy, he is now the owner of the largest green energy company in the country, and is the person responsible for all these bloody windmills that keep popping up everywhere.
On a sombre note… there’s two young kids in there somewhere too …
Rentadent:
simon1958:
I heard the owner(s) of that ‘little house’ stood their ground against the m/way developers… and won their ground. Not often that happens… eh ‘swampy’…And speaking of Swampy, he is now the owner of the largest green energy company in the country, and is the person responsible for all these bloody windmills that keep popping up everywhere.
Close, but not quite, the guy who set up Ecotricity (windmills everywhere) is an ex-traveller/hippie called Dale Vince (lives in the same town as me and is also chairman of Forest Green Rovers), ‘Swampy’ is Daniel Hooper who, as far as I know, still lives in a commune in Wales.
I remember when the M62 was cobbles.
I remember when most of the posts on here wasn’t cobblers.
Talking of cobblers Windy hill and the house in the road is nowhere near the sites of the recoveries of the victims bodies of the moors murders, Saddleworth Moor is way south. The search for the body of Keith Bennett has been centred at Wessenden Moor north of the A635 Greenfield to Meltham road. For those of a morbid nature you may be interested in that the M62 bus bombing for which Judith Ward was wrongly convicted and the murder of Lesley Molseed for which Stefan Kiszko was wrongly convicted are close to Windy Hill. The bus bomb was at the approach to the summit near junction 22 and you can see a painted memorial to Lesley Molseed on rocks over on Rishworth moor just north of the M62 west of the reservoir. I live in the area.
I thought the bus bombing was near Hartshead.
Yes, it can be ‘grim’ up there. Got its own micro-climate even.
Goldilox:
I thought the bus bombing was near Hartshead.
Yes, it can be ‘grim’ up there. Got its own micro-climate even.
There is a memorial at Hartshead services
i’m starting to feel very old now , memories of sitting for hours with loads of tarmac for the m62 from the top of windy hill onwards .waiting for it to stop raining , it was like the monsoon season up there . sit all day until someone came along and signed the notes " shoot it down the bank and get off home ". it was still built quicker than the " managed motorway " was messed about with . dave