Originally Posted by
MilneP
I hope you can resolve the arguments about a plane, probably a PaN-Am DC-8 low over the A30 near the current Meadows roundabout apparently about to land, at Blackbushe?
The photograph was taken by Joel Meyerowitz an aspiring young photographer, who went on to secure a world wide reputation who took the photograph in 1966-67.
The subject of the photograph taken in 1966-7 was probably the concrete pipe elephant. The history of this elephant is well known having been created by Barbara Jones for Trollope & Colls for the 1963 Lord Mayors Show. It was located in the entrance to the Trollope & Colls yard next to the Four Boys? petrol station.
Could this plane have been where it was in the photograph? Has it been added to the photograph? Where was it going to land.
Thank you.
MilneP
https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/99.247/
If the photo is real, its not anywhere near the approach to Blackbushe, not that a DC8 would get into Blackbushe anyway.......mind you Pan Am got a 707 into RAF Northolt so who knows, but that road with oil tanks or more likely gas holders, and other built up, doesn't look anywhere like the A30 near Blackbushe, its far too built up.
And why would he state London 1966, if it was that far out from London?
Trollope & Colls were bought out by Kaeverner in 1967 and still trade as part of Skanska UK, which acquired them when Skanska took over Trafalger House which had taken over Trollope & Colls.