As a kid, I was at Heathrow with my cousin and Uncle (who worked for BOAC) to see the first one land there, and had my only First Class flight in a BA 747, and on a Virgin 747 flight to LAX 20 odd years ago, it was being flown by a well known ex-RAF Lightning pilot
After 4 months away, I was back at LHR on Tues this week to return the company laptop and clear out my desk, and it was depressing leaving a ghost-town like LHR, seeing all the empty staff car parks.....and drove around the back of BA Maintainence past the Negus retro scheme 747 parked by the fence.......BA should keep that one back to be their final 747 departure out of LHR when they all start departing to storage/scrappies.