The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121735   Message #2661644
Posted By: Rasener
21-Jun-09 - 04:18 PM
Thread Name: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle
Subject: RE: The Bakelite Brummie - Big Al Whittle
Correct Gravelly Hill Interchange is the correct name.

Its colloquial name was coined in the 1970s by a sub-editor of the Birmingham Evening Mail, Alan Eaglesfield, after he realised that an aerial picture of the complex system of intertwined loops and ramps reminded him of a plate of spaghetti.