#London Heathrow Airport

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Marianne Faithfull with her son Nicholas at London Heathrow Airport, 1969. Photo by Roy Cummings.

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#OTD in 1968 – An Aer Lingus plane, the St Phelim, crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co Wexford, killing all 61 passengers and crew.

The plane, a Vickers Viscount, was on a flight from Cork to London Heathrow when it crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock without warning. There were no survivors. St Phelim was an 11-year old Viscount with the Vickers aircraft very popular with Aer Lingus for short and medium haul flights. A total of 20 were in service over almost two decades with the carrier. The passengers and crew were from…

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Watch This Amazing Landing At Heathrow Int. Airport - London - Turkish A...

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Sharon Tate photographed at London Airport on July 22, 1966.

Photos by Dove & John Downing

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Day 2274, 13 September 2024

A view through the window at Heathrow Terminal 5

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Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins & Tony Banks at Heathrow Airport, on tour in 1986.

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Liam at Heathrow airport in London today. January 23, 2024.

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marionette stimboard with liminal spaces for anon!

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6/1/97 - the spice girls (minus geri) arrive at heathrow airport in london, england from istanbul, turkey.

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An original grass airfield had been developed as early as 1929 called the Great West Aerodrome on land southeast of the hamlet of Heath Row, from which the modern airport takes its name. At that time the land around consisted of farms and open countryside.

In the wartime the airfield had been used by Fairy Aviation as a test and engineering site, but development of the whole Heath Row area as a much larger airport began in 1944. It was principally going to be used for long-distance military aircraft bound for the Far East, but by the time the airfield was complete, the war had ended, so the Government continued to develop the site as a civil airport. The airport was opened officially on 25th March 1946 by the Minister for Aviation Lord Winster as London Airport, but had operated from 1st January of that year when it was transferred from the Air Ministry to the civilian Ministry of Civil Aviation. The airport wasn't renamed Heathrow Airport, the name we know today until September 1966.

This film made in 1949, charts and explains the initial early development of what was then sleepy countryside west of London, all interesting stuff. Oh, the aeroplane at the beginning of the film is a Avro Lancastrian airliner, a development of the wartime Avro Lancaster bomber.

Please check out other posts with hashtag #video on @vintage-london-images

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Marianne Faithfull, 1968.

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Buhbye London. Heathrow was quick. Something off in the universe.

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Watch This Amazing Landing At London Heathrow Airport - UPS Cargo MD-11 ...

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Ike & Tina Turner at Heathrow Airport in London, October 1975.

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