I remember when the bridge was being built on the motorway at tipnor. I used to watch the tipper trucks all day long from Alexandra Park. I remember a section of the bridge collapsed under construction, killing two workmen.
There is a mistake in your comments at the beginning about where the conveyer belt brought the chalk down from! I worked on the construction with family members and the belt carried the chalk down from the cutting made through Portsdown Hill on the motorways way to Fareham and beyond! I was near to the Skew Road cutting and I well remember the dozers loading the Header of the belt! The belt could only carry so much weight so it would drop onto a next belt below after approximately 200 yards and so on to Port Solent! My job was to keep the chalk from building up too high under my belt head as it dropped onto the next belt below! This was a difficult task especially when it was raining as the chalk would stick to the belt and if the chalk was allowed to build up under the belt it would cut out thereby stopping the whole process on all of the sections, which often happened on Friday nights when some men would be having a few sneaky beers in their gaurdsman like huts on the job! I well remember the Irish ganger would be driving up and down the chalk road in his Land Rover raging at the culprit when discovered! Good old days!
My step mum Pat had a chum whom worked in an office in Portsmouth city centre whilst living in the north of the New Forest. For a few years she suffered the hour or more journey crossing through So’ton . Pat told me her mate was over the moon & literally held a party with her Co workers when there was actually motorway continuing beneath the A33 bridge at Chilworth and she was getting to work in 30 minutes - or less if it was out of hours 😁👍
The colour photo of the A27, before it was widened, by Highbury collage is a view I haven't seen before, it looks like when this was built spare land was kept for the future upgrading.
My fave bit is the first photo, never seen that angle before.)..didnt know parts were kept clear..i can see the end of my road far right and KRS ..and at 1:21...different angle...great video
2:50 Notice the sign "Marples Ridgeway" the "Marples" being Earnest Marples the Minister of Transport and roadbuilder who ordered the destruction of the railways by Dr. Richard Beeching!
Any dates available? Born in Pompey in 63 and remember getting the bus from the Hard ro Hilsea for school when the road still went past Dickens house, (only for a few months when it closed). Be nice to know when all this happened.
I remember when the bridge was being built on the motorway at tipnor. I used to watch the tipper trucks all day long from Alexandra Park. I remember a section of the bridge collapsed under construction, killing two workmen.
There is a mistake in your comments at the beginning about where the conveyer belt brought the chalk down from! I worked on the construction with family members and the belt carried the chalk down from the cutting made through Portsdown Hill on the motorways way to Fareham and beyond! I was near to the Skew Road cutting and I well remember the dozers loading the Header of the belt! The belt could only carry so much weight so it would drop onto a next belt below after approximately 200 yards and so on to Port Solent! My job was to keep the chalk from building up too high under my belt head as it dropped onto the next belt below! This was a difficult task especially when it was raining as the chalk would stick to the belt and if the chalk was allowed to build up under the belt it would cut out thereby stopping the whole process on all of the sections, which often happened on Friday nights when some men would be having a few sneaky beers in their gaurdsman like huts on the job! I well remember the Irish ganger would be driving up and down the chalk road in his Land Rover raging at the culprit when discovered! Good old days!
My step mum Pat had a chum whom worked in an office in Portsmouth city centre whilst living in the north of the New Forest. For a few years she suffered the hour or more journey crossing through So’ton . Pat told me her mate was over the moon & literally held a party with her Co workers when there was actually motorway continuing beneath the A33 bridge at Chilworth and she was getting to work in 30 minutes - or less if it was out of hours 😁👍
The colour photo of the A27, before it was widened, by Highbury collage is a view I haven't seen before, it looks like when this was built spare land was kept for the future upgrading.
My fave bit is the first photo, never seen that angle before.)..didnt know parts were kept clear..i can see the end of my road far right and KRS ..and at 1:21...different angle...great video
Cheers pal got any of Buckland?
2:50 Notice the sign "Marples Ridgeway" the "Marples" being Earnest Marples the Minister of Transport and roadbuilder who ordered the destruction of the railways by Dr. Richard Beeching!
I think opening was March 1977
Any dates available? Born in Pompey in 63 and remember getting the bus from the Hard ro Hilsea for school when the road still went past Dickens house, (only for a few months when it closed). Be nice to know when all this happened.
Do you have photos from the construction of the Brighton bypass?