Motorway gantry sign
A gantry spanning the motorway with blue overhead signs showing the following text.
Forward destinations: The SOUTH, Birmingham; Manchester (M61), Liverpool (M58) M6 .
Exit destinations: M55 Blackpool, Preston (N) (A6).
Junction number: 32.
We have reached Preston, and ahead of us is its bypass, the UK's first motorway, which opened in 1958. Suddenly we find ourselves heading towards The SOUTH and a whole range of other newly-discovered places.