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The 19th century “Plough and Harrow” public house, Heathrow. Heathrow Road was a little rural lane running through market gardens between the Bath Road and Perry Oaks. Halfway way along its length was the Plough and Harrow pub. In the 1930s it was run by a Mr Basham, an ex-policeman. It was demolished in 1944 as plans were drawn up for a larger airport to replace the existing London Airport at Croydon. This is possibly one of the most altered locations in the London area - you can experience the site of the pub by visiting WH Smith in the Arrivals area of Heathrow Terminal 2. TUM image id: 1503013172 Licence:	Cain’s Lane Mission Church (1935) This was a Baptist chapel built in 1901, disappeared in 1944 under Heathrow Airport. TUM image id: 1644338593 Licence:	Shrub End, Cains Lane, Heathrow (1943) David Wild standing with his wife Naomi, children Elizabeth and James with their nurse. The family was evicted in 1944 and their house demolished. Credit: W.Wild TUM image id: 1644856503 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Prototype Hendon bomber flying over the Great West Aerodrome (1935) The expansion of this aerodrome led to the creation of Heathrow Airport. In the photo we can see Heathrow Road straggling from top to right, Cain’s Lane is the straight road in the foreground and High Tree Lane the other visible road. TUM image id: 1644848848 Licence:	Charles Glenie inspects his dairy herd (1900s) The depicted farm - Cain’s Farm - disappeared under the building of Heathrow Airport in 1944. TUM image id: 1644596013 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Orchards were a major agricultural activities in the Heathrow area before the building of the airport in 1944. Credit: Wiki Commons/Rehemtulla TUM image id: 1644331942 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Three Magpies, Bath Road, Heathrow can be seen on the far right. The buildings here were on Heathrow Road - which was buried under the airport runways. TUM image id: 1637777571 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Middlesex Ploughing Match, Cain’s Lane, Heathrow (1908) The ploughing match was held annually in the Heathrow area until the outbreak of the Second World War. This scene was later buried under the runways for the new London airport. TUM image id: 1644598053 Licence:	A pre-war map of the village of Heathrow, Middlesex, showing the Fairey company’s Great West Aerodrome, which was hugely expanded post-war to become London Airport. The ’r’ of the label ’Heathrow’ marks the modern site of Terminal 2. TUM image id: 1503239496 Licence:	Heathrow Airport area (1939) We are returning to Heathrow Airport for this map which predated the complete transformation of the Heathrow area by five years. Running east-west across the top of the map is Bath Road. At the Three Magpies Inn (marked ’Inn’ beside ’The Magpies’ village), a loop of a road leads south to Heathrow village, then west to Perry Oaks and back to the Bath Road just shy of the Peggy Bedford pub (marked ’Inn’ at the split of the road at Longford). The small aerodrome south of Heathrow village was the kernel of the new London Heathrow Airport which would completely cover the map by the late 1940s. The ’w’ of the 1939 ’Heathrow’ village label is the exact site of the future central bus station. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1716634301 Licence:
Cain’s Farm Dairy milk float (1900s) This photo is evocative enough but the southern runway of Heathrow was built over the top of Cain’s Farm in 1944, obliterating the farm, its dairy herd and the previous life in the small hamlet of Heath Row, Middlesex TUM image id: 1669241071 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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Middlesex Ploughing Match, Cain’s Lane, Heathrow (1908) The ploughing match was held annually in the Heathrow area until the outbreak of the Second World War. This scene was later buried under the runways for the new London airport.
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