Heathrow before the Europa Terminal and Queens Building
In 1948 on the 81 bus towards Slough on the Bath Road, whilst on way the the ATC gliding School at Langley, Heathrow had Yorks, Lancastrians and the odd Halifax. Lots of mud and cement mixers.
In Sept. 1951 with 26 other RAF trainees on a BOAC coach from Victoria, we shivered in the tents before boarding a brand new Stratocruiser to Montreal via Keflavik. Still lots of mud and cement mixers.
Rather surprised and the lack of progress over the intervening ears although things picked up in the mid '50's.