Just noticed the Coronado has 4-blade props inboard, 3-blade out board

IWM coverage of the rather uncomfortable looking transport Stirling

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205127029

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126847
(SDASM/flickr not IWM)

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205209740

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210762

Are your father’s original photos or negatives lost, then?

The Liberator was the backbone of RAF Transport Command’s Long range routes which by 1945 stretched round the world. It started a with the Return Ferry Service across Prestwick to Canada operated by BOAC but controlled by Ferry Command later Transport Command
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205369277
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/14520979945/sizes/l

The C-87 Liberator Express was theC MK VII in the RAF
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126691

232 Sqn Liberator CMK VII (C-87) landing on steel mesh Cocos Is Mar45 last minute reel 7 in https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060028994

Liberator ‘Commando’ after use by Churchill’s then later conversion to semi-RY-3 configuration

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210637

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205210845

And a genuine RY-3 Liberator C.IX JT978 April 1945
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205126694

and RY-3 JT993 in New Zealand Dec45
http://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE12119986&dps_custom_att_1=emu
https://thumbnailer.digitalnz.org/?resize=664%3E&src=http%3A%2F%2Fndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz%2FNLNZStreamGate%2Fget%3Fdps_pid%3DIE12119986

An RCAF example which escaped the post-WWII crusher for some years
http://data2.archives.ca/ap/a/a065976-v8.jpg

Nice RAF Transport Command photos in the IWM collection, with a zoomable presentation

Daks and Stirlings at Prague 1945 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205211805

Ian has it right….in the spacious entrance lobby,there was also a newsreel cinema showing short films. Another covered footbridge was later built from T2 to the QB linking through to T1. In its final years when only the diminishing terrace ontop of T2 was accessible the entrance was up the old fire escape on the nearest corner of T2…as I recall there were no signs to the terrace. Surprisingly it even reopened after 9/11 closing finally when the 2nd Gulf war started https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1006684 [ATTACH=CONFIG]260565[/ATTACH]

The P.1081 was at[ATTACH=CONFIG]260555[/ATTACH] Heathrow in 1950…raises the unlikely question did it make its first flight there? See the evolution of the Hunter in some of these pics https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=Hawker&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=0&LH_Complete=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=TR184DG&_sargn=-1%26saslc%3D1&_salic=3&_fss=1&_fsradio=%26LH_SpecificSeller%3D1&_saslop=1&_sasl=Peterandjo101&_sop=10&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&_fosrp=1
Edit… and Flight 29Jun50 reveals the P.1081 was at L.A.P. for a flight to the Antwerp air show https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1950/1950%20-%201200.html?search=Hawker%20p1081%20london

I see what you meant about you being able to slip through gaps that Brian couldn’t to get some photos