EAW003342 ENGLAND (1946). Heathrow Airport, continuing construction work and environs, Harmondsworth, 1946

Blunt's Ave

Location of "Polar Park" today

A picture of Heath Row farmhouse and the Pullen family c1900

Heath Row Farm (and its farmhouse) were situated about here. It grew fruit and vegetables which supplied, amongst others, the family's greengrocer shop in Soho. My great-grandmother, Elizabeth Pullen, was the tenant c1900

This was the approximate area of the hamlet of Heath Row. I've attached an old map from 1891 where you can see Heath Row in the middle

Connie

Technicolor's factory

Pease Path (old country path)

Probably an area where the airport building contractors dug for sand and gravel to make concrete

Hatton Road

Approximate site of Wild's Farm

Perry Oaks sewage sludge settlement works

aproximate site of Heathrow Farm

approximate site of Heathrow Hall farm

Heathrow Road (former country lane)

Cain's Lane (former country lane)

part of Perry Oaks farm area

Heathrow Road (former country lane)

High Tree Lane (former country lane)

Runway no3 (NW-SE), already obsolete, closed and used for aircraft parking

Runway No1, now 27R/09L, extended several timea at Western (09) end

Runway No2 (23L/05R), 05 direction closed 1993, 23 direction closed 2002

Avro lancastrian

Avro Yorks (x2)

Lancastrians (x2)

L-R Dakota, York

L-R Dakota, Bristol Freighter, Skymaster

Constellations(x2)

Passenger terminal

First post-war Control Tower

Fairey's brick 'hangar'(survived till 1964)

Fairey's pre-war double hangar