London Heathrow Airport 1960

This short clip from the Beulah footage library shot from the open viewing area on to of the Queens Building shows BEA Viscount ( still in pre 1959 livery),a Sabena Douglas DC6 and a BOAC Bristol Britannia.

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Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• london
• heathrow
• airport
• vickers
• viscount
• bristol
• britannia
• bea
• boac
• sabena
• douglass

[NickRatnieks]

Back in the days when they knew how to paint planes (and buses) properly. As kids we were taken to Heathrow by a family friend who ran and air freight business-it was about 1960 and some of this is familiar. I can remember it all went horribly wrong- our friend's car was stolen-. that was before the place was renamed Thief Row as well! We were on the flight path to Heathrow- we would lie on the grass and watch the silhouettes- Constellation, DC3, Comet, 707, Britannia, even a York!

[florianska6]

@JamesMorganLondon

Fully agree with your last comment!

Many things have progressed but oh how standards have dropped.

(No one using a mobile phone in the video. How was life possible??!!)

florianska6

[harryfaber]

Viscounts, DC3s, a Brittania, fantastic!

The Viscount was a superb aircraft.

[RainfulPhenix]

@eltfell

True.

Todays airports only contain Airbuses, Boeings and CRJ jets.

That is about it. Any other planes are just considered as "rare"

[eltfell]

0:26 "We saw aircraft of all shapes and sizes." Today, we see Boeing and Airbus. And Airbus. And Boeing. And Boeing. And again Boeing. And a few Airbuses. Oh, and Boeings, if I didn't mention that.

[Moviestar20]

Nostalgia!! :D

[iopy95]

that building is being demolished as I type!! shame, but what will replace it will be world-class, just like that was in 1960.

[HUTINAK]

and it hasn't changed one bit

[charlieiscool1000]

LOL amazing how much its changed and how much the times have changed its so old fasioned yet theres abit of comedy in it i wonder why they never made Heathrow bigger before

[82648947]

people even got dressed up to fly! ..Yes

billyguns2, dress smartly was the custom, those were the days! (before they started squeezing maximum numbers into cramped economy seating and flying became an endurance test)