LIVERPOOL JOHN LENNON AIRPORT has celebrated its 70th anniversary, officially opened on 1 July 1933. In the late 1920s Liverpool City Council chose Speke in south Liverpool for the location of the airport because of the geography of the site and its good year round weather record ” reasons still current. Today”s new ”32.5m terminal is a huge contrast to the first passenger building, a converted farmhouse. This was subsequently replace by the ”art deco” structure now the impressive Liverpool Marriott Hotel South. In five years” time the 75th anniversary will coincide with Liverpool”s reign as European Capital of Culture. http://www.liverpooljohnlennonairport.com