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Constructed in 1973, the "Magic Roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead was voted the UK's second-worst roundabout in a 2005 poll held by an insurance company (the winner being its Swindon counterpart). [1] In 2011 the roundabout was voted the best in Britain by motorists in a competition organised by a car leasing service. [2]
[6] [2] Although the exact time of the early evening news varied over the years, The Magic Roundabout kept its slot before the bulletins for the duration of its original broadcasting, except for 16:55 time slots during October to November 1966, and earlier times during parts of 1972 and 1973. This was the first time an entertainment programme ...
The original route from Hemel Hempstead to St Albans followed the course of what is now the A4147, then from St Albans to Hatfield on the course of what are now the A1057 and B6426. The villages of Cole Green , Birch Green , and Staines Green were bypassed in the 1990s by a new dual carriageway that linked into the 1970s Hertingfordbury bypass.
A special traffic roundabout in England with a complex layout, nicknamed after the above series, also known as a ring junction: Magic Roundabout (Colchester) Magic Roundabout (Hemel Hempstead) Magic Roundabout (High Wycombe) Magic Roundabout (Swindon) "Magic Roundabout", a song on IQ's 1985 album The Wake "Magic Roundabout", a 1975 song by ...
M10 south of St Albans in 2005. The M10 was a motorway in Hertfordshire, England, running for approximately 3 miles (4.5 km) southeast from the M1 motorway at junction 7 near Hemel Hempstead to the A414 North Orbital Road at Park Street Roundabout, just south of St Albans. Opened in 1959, it was reclassified as part of the A414 in 2009 having ...
Magic Roundabout (Swindon) This page was last edited on 21 February 2016, at 16:37 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Eric Norman Thompson (9 November 1929 – 30 November 1982) was an English actor, scriptwriter and stage director. He is best remembered for creating and performing the English narration for The Magic Roundabout, [1] which he adapted from the original French Le Manège enchanté.
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad roundhouse, Aberdeen, South Dakota; Currently 7 stalls, 22 stalls demolished (foundations visible), turntable demolished. Chicago and North Western Roundhouse , Huron, SD, NRHP-listed, now belonging to Rapid City, Pierre and Eastern Railroad ; Once full circle, 15 stalls and the turntable remain.