Memories of "Plane" spotting at Livepool Airport 1960's
As a Garston lad I used to go regularly plane spotting at the old Liverpool Airport, in the 1960's
This usually consisted of me and a few mates sitting for hours on end, bottle of water, brown sauce butty, paying 3d to the old ticker collector, to go on the spectators balcony, waiting for a plane............it was a bit like the beginning of "Fantasy Island" when a plane did land we would get very excited, just like tattooo.....
Very occasionally a British Eagle Vickers Viscount would take off to the IOM, the incredibly loud whistling sound of the engines probably contributed to my mid life hearring loss. What?? what? eh??
We would spent a tanner on the telescope and all have a go before the money ran out, one day it didnt run and stayed on.....when there werent any palnes to watch the next best thing was watching the large number of hares boxing on the runway......