'If I have seen further,' Isaac Newton said of his universal gravitational theory in 1676, 'it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. Laws of motion aside, this quote was obviously in the mind of architect TP Bennett and Son when designing its 1965 Forton Services between Junctions 32 and 33 on the M6 (left). Picking upon the futuristic fascination with speed, it looked like an air traffic control tower and had pentagonal lifts to whisk visitors up to its restaurant. So while you chowed down a bacon butty courtesy of Top Rank, the people that brought you Carry On movies and bingo, you'd get breathtaking views of rain clouds slamming into the side of the Pennines.
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