I don’t remember Starliners as freighters. On North Side the freighters were usually Yorks and DC-6A’s. You also got the odd Comet 2 and the sole Comet 3 there too. I remember the ripple of excitement going through my school, which was just across the A4 Bath Road from North Side, when the pink tail of an Overseas National DC-6A was spotted in central area. Lunchtime saw a flood of spotty youths with scopes foregoing the delights of secondary school dinners to spot it!

Big head! Mine’s much smaller.

And here’s one at rest.

S-55 camper after the pikeys nocturnal visit…:D

Even better if you have a caravan.

I wonder who else experimented with the ability of the roof garden’s pigeons to swallow “Treats”, which for the younger readers were chocolate covered peanuts, with a crispy sugar coating. They melted in your mouth, not your hand, or so the advertising said. Anyway it was with some sadistic amusement that the pigeons were plied with said product, often causing a gagging/chocking effect. This of course ended when the next Convair 340 taxied in…

Here’s one I only scanned this week. Vickers Viking G-AHOW, ex-Invicta at Manston. Well the nose bit was there then in summer 1969…

I logged 4X-AGA on 1st April 1960…. It was a Britannia 313 though….:D