{"id":8612,"date":"2026-11-03T01:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T01:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8612"},"modified":"2026-11-03T15:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T15:21:13","slug":"heathrow-airport-legacy-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=8612","title":{"rendered":"HEATHROW AIRPORT LEGACY PHOTOS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(As per usual, on a laptop or desk top monitor, each image is expandable to full screen by cursor clicking)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RAF Heston becomes Heathrow Airport after WWII<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Converted Lancaster Bomber takes off with passengers not bombs for Buenos Aires in 1946<\/strong> at the very start of intercontinental passenger aviation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This one tugs at the heart strings<\/strong>. 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<\/strong> “this Sceptred Isle” for the first time as its new sovereign.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The King is dead! Long live the Queen!”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He taught her well! <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Hollywood actress could pull off the role she played for several decades as successfully as she did!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Arrival of Martin Luther King<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First passenger flight of the Concorde<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Triumphant arrival of Sophia Loren<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Concorde’s record trans Atlantic flight from London to New York in less than 3 hours<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Apologies to the residents of Long Island for the sonic boom upon arrival!)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Confident arrival of “Satchmo”<\/strong> Armstrong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/strong> We shall not see her like again!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AVE ATQUE VALE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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