Even given this is an aviation site I am amazed how many of us took our first flights out of Heathrow in a Dragon Rapide.
I had my fifth birthday party in the restaurant at the airport, (it was a Nissen hut), that would be Nov. 1949. Actually my birthday is in December but my grandfather, who put it on, was ill and organised the party for about thirty kids (and all their parents,) in November so we could have massive bonfires on the edge of the airport. (He was working on the airport at the time.) I just wouldn't be that surprised to hear about half of you lot were there!