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[VintageKrug]

Just thought it would be interesting to post a link to some stock footage from 1955, reminding everyone how modest Heathrow was just under 60 years ago:

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/london-airport/query/waterloo+helicopter

You can more easily see the the six runways LHR had in 1956 in this photograph:

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/RAF%20Bovingdon/BovingdonRadarCalibrationVarsity-LA.jpg

…more links here:

http://archive.org/details/london_airport_TNA

[SimonS1]

Great footage that. 400,000 passengers in a year.

Massive construction and not a safety hat or goggles in sight. Propellers whirring and some guy wandering around in a long coat without a care in the world.

And the passengers were smiling, actually enjoying it!

Fantastic.

[LuganoPirate]

Thanks VK, I love the these archives. Then the “Crown Film Unit” those were the days!

Imagine today having a tent for a terminal and then walking straight to the plane? How much easier things were and dare I ask, but was travel any less safe then than it is today?

[Binman62]

Brilliant just brillian. To the comments above I would add.

You still get a bus to the place almost 60 years later.

I saw the guy in army uniform…….G4S must have been as bad then…..

Above all I agree with SimonS1 passengers are smiling….

[Bullfrog]

VK .. that’s such a great post. Thank you !

[Bucksnet]

6 runways then and now all the controversy about going back to 3!

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