Where was this taken? This will only be familiar to those who were driving before 1976, when this was bypassed. This artic is here because of a rare diversion from the bypass, resulting in this blast from the past photo, amongst several others I took, in June 2006.
For obvious reasons, locals can’t take part, unless no-one else has managed to identify the location.
Launceston ?
Hi fryingpan
There is already a thread on here named WHERE AM I you will find it on the main board index page just under the Transport Photos forum Thread.
Blackburn ?
A388 LAUNCETON.
Yep. The old A30 at Launceston, now A388.
Does anyone remember that bend? You can see how much space is taken by this modern HGV, imagine what it was like with regular lorries in both directions. Hugging the kerb on the left to allow space for the uphill ones. Massive queues on summer weekends, as holiday traffic poured westwards.
Sorry about the wrong location, I only look at this forum and, didn’t even know about most of the others.
Happy days!
fryingpan:
Where was this taken? This will only be familiar to those who were driving before 1976, when this was bypassed. This artic is here because of a rare diversion from the bypass, resulting in this blast from the past photo, amongst several others I took, in June 2006.
For obvious reasons, locals can’t take part, unless no-one else has managed to identify the location.
As i remember it Launceston ( Lanson to the locals ) was bypassed in the early eighties & not 1976 as stated.Had many years running up & down the old A30 out of Cornwall,narrow roads steep hills & not too much horse power !