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Demolition of Heathrow Hall (1944) Heathrow Hall was the major building of the hamlet of Heath Row which gives its name to London’s main airport. Its location would now be buried beneath the pedestrian area outside Terminal 2.
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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.
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Cain’s Lane Mission Church (1935) This was a Baptist chapel built in 1901, disappeared in 1944 under Heathrow Airport.
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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.
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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.
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Oak tree
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British Airways Concordes gathering to sniff the back of a freshly-built one, deciding whether to let it into their group
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Heathrow Hall (1935) This was farmed by the Philp family and was demolished in 1944. It was one of the main farms of the Heathrow area. It would nowadays be located on top of the northern road tunnel into the airport.
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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.
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