When Air Travel Was Still Fun!

[Garry Russell]

The areas in front of the buiding match too

Yep looks like Croydon

Garry

[DaveB]

Coo.. did you lot keep at it all night

I think I'm convinced it's Croydon too. I see that shadow and it fits doesn't it as does Brians aerial shot. What d'ya reckon Pete??

ATB

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[PeteP]

OK Guys, I'm going to stick my neck out here, but I think it's Croydon. [...] The shadow on the ground looks like one of the aerials.

I agree, John - the ground shadow at the bottom of the picture certainly looks like the edge of the tower with one of its very distinctive overhanging aerials. Looks like Croydon, then.



Pete

[PeteP]

What d'ya reckon Pete??

Yep, Croydon looks good to me. Thanks to all for the fascinating posts.
Pete

[DaveB]

Excellent

Despite me pushing for Hurn.. I never really liked it due to that building. Croydon.. well it looked like Croydon from the word go but those Lancs being there cast doubt. With AGLU in shot.. you can safely date the shot between 5.4.45 (del) and 15.8.46 when it was written off at Hurn in a takeoff accident ;-)

No more for now please. I need time for the blisters to go down on my fingertips

Great thread

ATB

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[speedbird591]

Going by the pile of baggage in the foreground, I'd hazard an early shot of Terminal 5 :roll:

[AllanL]

Base on the bodies traipsing in/out of the Bristol (always liked big B... - take your time Garry I may get barred from the PC when you issue it) it is presumably on a regular service. Now the second Ministry of Supply prototype - G-AGVB - first flew on 30 April 1946. On 7 June 1946 G-AGVB was granted the first unrestricted Certificate of Airworthiness for a new post war aircraft and later in the same month was leased by Channel Airways - who used Southampton and Croydon. (G-AGVB info blatantly (researched) ok plagiarised off http://glostransporthistory.visit-glouc ... tol170.htm)

So if that is so, then the piccie must have been taken between June and August '46 - based on Dave's comments about the Lancastrian. Talking of Lancastrians there was a question somewhere above about the seating. There were two seating arrangements, one sitting sideways and one more conventional facing forwards. the Plane Design Lancastrian is the one that BOAC didn't use, so any requests for a BOAC scheme are politely bodyswerved. The freeware one has painted on windies, so you can have whatever scheme you want on it! Truly sad gits have both, while they patiently wait for big B....s, but I digress .

[TSR2]

Great thread... right Pete, more like this please! That was great fun.

[AllanL]

I wonder if those nice people at the Croydon Aerodrome Society would be interested in a copy of the picture? For that matter they could probably give a definitive answer to the whole question.

As this is coming up to the first weekend of the month they will be open and doing the tours of the airport building. So if you've already bought the little lady that new joystick she didn't know she was in need of for Christmas, why not take her down for a tour of the Airport?

[Techy111]

See....I was right all along......

Tony