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Memories of Spaghetti Junction's lost pub - the site today has a much more mundane use

For a few days only, one of the more unlikely tourism destinations in the Midlands has been Spaghetti Junction.

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The Erdington Arms in the shadow of Spaghetti Junction in 1972.

And if you are a tourist sampling the delights of the Gravelly Hill interchange on the M6, as the traffic roars above your head – or stutters, if there is a jam – you're going to want to take a break for a refreshing drink, aren't you?

Folk who paid to go on the organised tours as part of Birmingham Heritage Week have wandered among the supporting columns and along the canals which lie beneath the elevated carriageways, admiring, if that is the right word, the landscape and the wildlife which has moved in to this man-made environment.