On my way through Heathrow Terminal 2 for my flight home from a recent trip to London, I encountered the following historic wall art as thousands of others brushed past with complete indifference.
(As per usual, on a laptop or desk top monitor, each image is expandable to full screen by cursor clicking)
RAF Heston becomes Heathrow Airport after WWII
Converted Lancaster Bomber takes off with passengers not bombs for Buenos Aires in 1946 at the very start of intercontinental passenger aviation
This one tugs at the heart strings. Young Princess Elizabeth returns from a shooting safari in Kenya after the sudden death of her father in 1952 to be greeted by Winston Churchill as she steps on to the soil of “this Sceptred Isle” for the first time as its new sovereign.
“The King is dead! Long live the Queen!”
Given the close relationship between her father and Churchill during the war, she will rely heavily on his guidance in the early years of her reign.
He taught her well!
No Hollywood actress could pull off the role she played for several decades as successfully as she did!
Arrival of Martin Luther King
First passenger flight of the Concorde
Triumphant arrival of Sophia Loren
Concorde’s record trans Atlantic flight from London to New York in less than 3 hours.
(Apologies to the residents of Long Island for the sonic boom upon arrival!)
Confident arrival of “Satchmo” Armstrong
Her Majesty opens the new Terminal 5. I had the honour of sitting to the immediate right of a much younger queen in 1987 as the representative of Canada when she opened the new London inner city airport in the old docklands. Fond memories. We shall not see her like again!
AVE ATQUE VALE