Newcastle 'came alive' at a certain point in the mid-60s when, from nowhere seemingly, appeared regular DC-6 operations by Adria and a couple of Spanish operators. Up until that moment, registrations other than G- had been an extreme rarity and so had been visitors of that size.
Recall arriving by bike early on Friday evenngs and as I mounted the crest on the approach road the tips of one - two - three DC-6 tails becoming visible on that tiny apron on the Woolsington side. Of course the Ian Allen books didn't even have the charter fleets listed so you had to carefully pencil them in.
God, I'm getting old.