A585 through the decades: What Mains Lane, Amounderness Way and Norcross Roundabout looked like when they were being built or dug up for improvements
By Claire Lark
Published 20th Sep 2022, 15:45 BST
As the reconstruction works at Skippool and Mains Lane continue to provide traffic relief to the north of the Fylde, we’ve mined the archives to find out what the A585 and Amounderness Way were like in the early days.
The photos show sections of Mains Lane, River Wyre and Norcross roundabouts and the construction of Amounderness Way right up to Fleetwood in the 70s. Carving a path through the fields, the ‘new road’ was a faster, more efficient route. And decades later part of the A585 at Mains Lane is being completely redesigned again, causing much congestion and misery as it happens. But once completed it will speed up the link from the M55. The photos show how the road cut through the fields, the roundabouts, junctions and when they were begging for traffic lights at Shard Road. Don’t miss the cars too – they are a blast from the past...
A super-early scene of Amounderness Way. It has changed somewhat but this was 1981 and shows the traffic lights at the West Drive junction Photo: National World
It's tricky to work this becaause it's changed so much. But we think it is the section of Amounderness Way between Fleetwood and West Drive with Milburn Avenue to the right and Pheasants Wood to the left, before it became a housing estate. The road cut right through farm land and the photo was taken in March 1978 Photo: National World