John Minnis is Senior Investigator at English Heritage and also co-author of Carscapes: The Motor Car, Architecture and Landscape in England. The news that the tower restaurant at Lancaster (originally Forton) Services on the M6 has been listed on the advice of English Heritage has turned a few heads. But the extraordinary structure that looks like an airport control tower is one of those landmarks that sticks in the mind and is one of the few tangible reminders of a moreRead more