Hmm, I see that TEMPO 1316 21020G35KT is forecast for London Airport today. Shame that RW23 is no longer available.....
On the ancient Vickers Super FunBus, one's man (the flight engineer) did the throttles on the approach in response to the pilot's calls. Rather nautical, e.g. "Eng, 83% please". That meant you had both hands on the control column to wrestle with the beast in strongish (up to 28 kt) crosswinds rather than the Piper Cherokee one hand for control, one hand for throttle method used by the airlines of today. We used the wing-level 'crab' technique all the way to the flare, then yawed to align the a/c with the runway at the same rate the a/c was held off in the flare, ideally touching down gently with zero drift. Any swept wing roll-with-yaw characteristic was countered with opposite aileron/spoiler.
It took a fair bit of practice to fly the thing in strong crosswinds - an ILS on a gusty wet night was always rather a challenge!