The roads that changed Birmingham - junctions and flyovers that got us moving

We have all been on them and used them, sometimes without even noticing we are on them but we take a look back at some of the amazing structures which were built in Birmingham. The big daddy of them all has to be Spaghetti Junction, or to give it its correct name, the Gravelly Hill Interchange.

Birmingham Spaghetti Junction was named by Birmingham Mail reporter Roy Smith, who when he looked at the plans said it looked something like a cross between, 'A plate of Spaghetti and a Staffordshire knot'. The phase stuck and we all know and love, or perhaps hate, Spaghetti Junction.

My other favourite was the Digbeth flyover. Put together in just 30 hours over the course of one weekend, as a temporary traffic measure, and 28 years later, the same company that constructed it got to tear it down. Camp Hill Flyover, the pre-fab steel and concrete ramp over the Camp Hill/Coventry Road junction. Built in 1961, it was a one-way high road over the ever-busier junction for those heading out of town. I used to love coming over here as a kid on the bus with what it seemed like six inches either side.

Seems today flyovers are not in fashion with the demolition of Perry Barr flyover, but there are still a few standing proud with the Hockley flyover and Lancaster Circus flyover being ones still standing.