The photgraph above shows the the agricultural land around the aerodrome where crops were grown for the London markets.
Heathrow airport started life in the 1930’s as the Great Western Aerodrome, privately owned by Fairey Aviation. It was largely…
The Bedfont area was surrounded by a vast number of fields for cultivation which can be seen in these pictures, taken in the 1930’s. The crops in the fields and orchards are laid out in rows. All of this land is now Heathrow Airport.
