On Aug 11, 11:04*am, Roland Perry wrote:

In message , at 09:30:44 on Tue, 11 Aug 2009,
remarked:

Just came across this pic of the north circular from 1975. how times change.
Today its a walled off 6 lane motorway at this location.

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/119213

Further west it's still as narrow as that

As is most of its 'southern hemisphere' cousin! (Not that I would want
it otherwise!)