Bridges to Nowhere: A Motorway Services Fantasia
It’s 65 years since Britain’s first motorway services opened. These days they’re all video games, phone covers and massage chairs, servicing minds and bodies craving diversion after hours of sitting in a car eating wine gums and being told to keep right in 38 miles. They were designed as an essential part of the motorway network when it was planned in the 1950s. Companies took them on with fifty-year leases, businesses long since vanished: Blue Boar; Granada; Top Rank.
Join John Grindrod on a journey around the history and strange allure of these places that exist slightly to the side of our day-to-day lives. Featuring five original illustrations by Richard de Pesando, who also designed and set the pamphlet in the Transport typeface, this is a beautiful object as well as a charming diversion into one of our most curious byways.
This is 24 page pamphlet in a narrow A5 format from Ambitious Outsiders press.
CHRISTMAS 2025 – I will mail these out first class – Royal Mail says last posting date is 20th December
It’s 65 years since Britain’s first motorway services opened. These days they’re all video games, phone covers and massage chairs, servicing minds and bodies craving diversion after hours of sitting in a car eating wine gums and being told to keep right in 38 miles. They were designed as an essential part of the motorway network when it was planned in the 1950s. Companies took them on with fifty-year leases, businesses long since vanished: Blue Boar; Granada; Top Rank.
Join John Grindrod on a journey around the history and strange allure of these places that exist slightly to the side of our day-to-day lives. Featuring five original illustrations by Richard de Pesando, who also designed and set the pamphlet in the Transport typeface, this is a beautiful object as well as a charming diversion into one of our most curious byways.
This is 24 page pamphlet in a narrow A5 format from Ambitious Outsiders press.
CHRISTMAS 2025 – I will mail these out first class – Royal Mail says last posting date is 20th December
It’s 65 years since Britain’s first motorway services opened. These days they’re all video games, phone covers and massage chairs, servicing minds and bodies craving diversion after hours of sitting in a car eating wine gums and being told to keep right in 38 miles. They were designed as an essential part of the motorway network when it was planned in the 1950s. Companies took them on with fifty-year leases, businesses long since vanished: Blue Boar; Granada; Top Rank.
Join John Grindrod on a journey around the history and strange allure of these places that exist slightly to the side of our day-to-day lives. Featuring five original illustrations by Richard de Pesando, who also designed and set the pamphlet in the Transport typeface, this is a beautiful object as well as a charming diversion into one of our most curious byways.
This is 24 page pamphlet in a narrow A5 format from Ambitious Outsiders press.
CHRISTMAS 2025 – I will mail these out first class – Royal Mail says last posting date is 20th December