The 50 year-old M6 sign passed by millions saved from the scrapheap
manchestereveningnews.co.ukIt stood for almost 50 years to become one of the oldest signs on the UK's entire motorway network. Millions of motorists on the M6 have passed by over five decades, but age inevitably intervened.
When the information sign for Keele Services, in north Staffordshire, suddenly disappeared one day, it sparked a social media buzz resulting in an investigation.
The blue and white sign - barely legible and rusting away - was taken down for safely reasons, but now has pride of place in a transport museum. READ MORE: 'We bought this 150-year-old house in Greater Manchester for £495,000...
then found a secret room' Despite the many thousands of signs that National Highways has on its network, the information sign for Keele Services was unusual in that it was in the central reservation and is believed to be one of the oldest signs of its kind on the network, dating back to the mid-1970s.
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