EAW020705 ENGLAND (1948). Brockley Hill, Stanmore, from the south-east, 1948

Approx line of a 2ndWW anti-landing trench.

Approx location of a 2ndWW Pillbox, e14321, S0005010.

Aircraft engine test facility, operated by de Havilland Aircraft Company. In the main Rolls Royce Merlin engines were reconditioned and tested here during WW2. The site was taken over by the Danziger Brothers ,in the 1950s to become the New Elstree Studios. The site was taken over by RTZ Metals in 1965, and is now a business park called The Waterfront.

A very strange Victorian confection - Caldecote Towers. Once a private home for someone with more money than taste. Later a boarding school, a convent and now Immanuel College, an independent co-educational Jewish day school.

The Grove - A property once the home of Edwina Ashley (later to become) Mountbatten. It was acquired by GEC (later BAe Systems) in 1950. The house was demolished in 1979 and replaced by offices and laboratories. The site and grounds have now been redeveloped for housing.

Limes House - at that time, the home of Sir Frederick Handley Page, the aircraft pioneer, who lived here from 1922 until his death in 1962.

Lymes Farm

Warren House (later Springbok House)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

Intended site of the Bushey Heath terminus of the abandoned project to extend the Northern Line from Edgware.

Aldenham Bus Overhaul Works (London Transport) Site originally intended as the motive power depot for the abandoned Northern Line extension from Edgware to Bushey Heath.