MT 39/191

ARTERIAL AND TRUNK ROADS: Official photographs

Date range	1924 - 1942
Location	National Archives (see all files stored here)
Catalogue	See entry
File base	Series MT, subseries MT 39

This file is truly delightful. It is likely to bring a smile to your face, probably because it contains the sort of thing that makes trawling through dusty archive documents worthwhile. The thing in this file that makes your day might actually have nothing to do with its subject matter.

This file is stuffed to the gills full of photographs documenting the major new road constructed in the 1920s and 1930s, including the Kingston Bypass, Purley Way, Guildford and Godalming Bypass, Great West Road and the Winchester Bypass. There are also plenty of other road schemes, and some lovely photos of the A82 along Loch Ness.

If you can't spend all day drooling over this file, you're not a road enthusiast.

People with Camera Copies

Ritchie Swann has copies of as many photographs as he could get in 20 minutes before the National Archives closed for the day.