Adverse weather in the winter of 1969 held up construction of the M62 section by six months.

[3] The 13-mile (21 km) section from Whitefield to the Lancashire-Yorkshire boundary opened on Tuesday 3 August 1971.

[4] Lighting on 30 m (98 ft) high mast steel columns, each with eight 400W lanterns, was built by Balfour Kilpatrick Installations, who also supplied the 500 lighting columns for the Milnrow to Rockingstone Moss M62 section.

The 32-acre (13 ha) site opened as Esso Taverna, on Monday 18 December 1972.

[citation needed] The colour scheme in the toilets was black, white and powder blue.

[7] In September 1989 the services were the location for the murder of Inspector Raymond Codling of the Greater Manchester Police.

[9] The westbound amenity building was destroyed in a massive fire on 9 October 2003.

After losing large sums of cash in a slot machine, Jason New started kicking it to get his money back.

The petrol station, motel and eastbound services were not affected but were evacuated for safety reasons.