We're well into the winter period now and many of us will be focusing on how we're going to heat households and businesses - never mind our city roads.
But more than 60 years ago, a Liverpool first was introduced to make ice, snow and slush a problem of the past. The city’s first heated road was carefully crafted by council roadmen, who lay electric elements over the cobbles on Brownlow Hill in the city-centre in December 1959.
The electrical equipment converted a 100-yard stretch into a thermostatically-heated road, which was also the first in the North of England. The "experiment" towards beating snow, slush and ice saw a current operate when the temperature fell below 35 degrees. At the time, it was thought that the cost of heating was to be much less than the sum spent each winter on spreading salt and grit on the road.
