A628 Westway to reopen tomorrow following fire

https://www.barnsley.gov.uk/news/a628-westway-barnsley-to-reopen-on-friday/

 

thats good, its been a pain in the arse getting around in the car at the moment

 

Woooo, thank god.

 

About time.

 

I remember that road being built so it's obviously not that old, weird how we've come to rely on it so much, using Agnes Road and the streets beyond as a detour has not been fun having to give way to another car every ten yards due to parked cars.

 

What was there before it? And when was it built? I'm nosey

 

Nalgo / Unison offices opposite the church and baths cos my mum used to work there. Basically cut a valley in the hill.

 

This looks like the streets with the route of Westway imposed on it.

 

I never realised it was like that

 

I'd say about 1990ish, nowt major knocked down for it but a couple of streets carried on up from Wellington Street which is why you now have Castlereagh Street and Lower Castlereagh Street for example.

 

You can't remember the roads being painted red??

 

[video=youtube;JdLKmbXlGRo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdLKmbXlGRo[/video]

6:14 on this video it looks like it's nearing completion so 1991 according to Dave Cherry.

 

Nope. I thought they'd always been black. It's amazing what you learn isn't it :tongue:

 

I'm not sure why but I always figured it was a lot earlier than that even though I was alive and should have remembered

 

I enjoyed that, mate. Thank you for posting it.

 

You should learn something new every day, old mate.

 

It's funny what you remember, I remember seeing it near completion when I was in the car with my step dad late on a Saturday night going to India Gardens to pick an Indian up...parked in the car park behind Corner Pin and there was a group of lasses having a p*ss against the wall...I'm pretty sure the boozers 10 yard away had toilets back then, they did 6 or 7 years later when I started going out anyway.

 

We moved onto Castlereagh St in late 94 and it had been there a while then. I think I only went to the Alabama Aligator a couple of times before that was shut to make way, so probably 89-90ish.

 

Thanks for that. I was 4 when the original video was filmed so to me growing up that's how town always was. I moved away to uni 10 years ago so the older video reminds me more of town than the modern video does.

 

Some cracking old footage on his YouTube.