Mancunian Way with white earphones

Printed here in Manchester on archival fine art giclée paper.

Part of my 'Ive Missed You Too' series: I drew this at A2 and then added lots of textures and details in Photoshop.

Dubbed the ‘highway in the sky’ by the local paper, Manchester’s Mancunian Way was only the UK’s second aerial motorway when it was completed in 1965. The first was Hammersmith flyover in west London and both were designed by consulting engineers G Maunsell and Partners, who knew a thing or two about prestressed concrete flyovers.

The design of the Mancunian Way won a Concrete Design Award in 1968 and there’s a plaque saying so near the Brook Street pedestrian underpass.

The two-mile motorway was officially opened by prime minister Harold Wilson on May 5th, 1967 although the first car to use it was a three-wheeled van driven by 16-year-old Robin Garrido at the road’s legal opening a few days before.

Shipping costs coming up later are:
UK, tracked £6.60
(Just selling to UK for now until I can understand the new EU rules)

The printed will be ‘digitally signed’ somewhere at the bottom. If you’d rather keep it clean, just say.