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Great bit of film. 'Every man and his wife' lol.
Fascinating glimpse at LHR in 1964 in one of Rank's Look At Life series - you have to be really ancient to remember those at the cinema.
The full colour video shows LHR under huge development with motorway links, hotels, multi-storey car parks etc being built. There are also shots of the aircraft of the time: VC10, Boeing 707, Trident and so on.
In 1964 when the film was shot the narrator tells us that Heathrow was handling 8 million passengers a year soon to be 10 million. Towards the end of the film there are some shots of Gatwick, then handling over a million passengers a year and expected to increase to 2.5 million in 1970 and thereafter to 5 million.
Even then, we are told, Heathrow and Gatwick won't be able to cope with all London's air traffic in the 1970s, so we are given a peek at Stansted which will become London's third airport.
What they would have thought then at the prospect of Heathrow handling 75 million a year and Gatwick 40 million, heaven knows.
It's a good quality look back at Heathrow half a century ago.
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