London Airport - Heathrow Construction Film

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Courtesy: British Government Public Information Films
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_H...
www.heathrowairport.com/
The story of a great engineering feat - the building, at Heathrow, of one of the largest airports in the world.April 1944 Great Western Aerodrome started its transformation from a privately owned small grass airfield to Heathrow. One of the worlds busiest airports. Londons main civil airport replacing Croydon Airport.
The airport opened fully for civilian use on 31 May 1946. London Heathrow International Airport's one terminal was in fact an army surplus tent situated a short walk from the aircraft.
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@studebaker4217 2 месяца назад

I have a 1926 Bartholomew's map of "Surrey" that shows Heath Row as a simple junction of two country lanes and a couple of rural buildings, surrounded by heathland. Hard to believe the change to today.

@Alan-ss3xp 21 день назад

It must have been fascinating for visitors and crew seeing Heathrow gradually grow. I read in the weekend FT 7 million passengers went through the airport in May 2024. A far cry from 400,000 per year as the gentleman mentioned in this film!

@4seeableTV Месяц назад

Concrete has come a long way since then. That stuff they were pouring back then already looked 50 years old when it was brand new.

@TheAnn2shoes 7 лет назад

Heath Row was originally a small hamlet and the people living in and around the area were mainly market gardeners. The nearby area of Perry Oaks was changed into a sewerage plant early on I think. The children from the hamlet of Heath Row were having to be ferried to school by taxi as the work on the airport began. The early history of the airport is fascinating.

@LeeAirVideos 4 года назад

My wife’s late Grandfather Harry Curtis owned Heathrow farm; located now where the Central Area is at LHR. They grew cereals and vegetables until the farm was purchased by the Government in the later stages of World War Two! There is buried on the farm two Shire horses Boxer and Kitty, I wonder if they are still there?

@Ruffbiker68 2 месяца назад

My great grandad was a market gardener in Tatchbrook road next to where McDonald's is now Feltham and my dad used to go there on holiday Feltham was mainly countryside in the 1940s

@Alan-ss3xp 21 день назад

@@Ruffbiker68My mum said Feltham was like a village, they moved from Deptford. I worked at Wills and Segar on Bedfont Lane. One of my colleagues, Dereck Jones, lived in Tachbrook near Link Road.

@Snoozzzzzze 8 дней назад

Interesting about the farm being purchased, another more recent documentary on here gave the impression that the farm and all land, houses etc. were simply taken by the government with no reparation or compensation at all as it was claimed to be for the war effort.

@marcjboy1 10 лет назад

Love the guy's hair at 3.39 lol

@planemadmatt 14 лет назад

How airports look so different now! Amazing footage there!

@canman5060 8 лет назад

Heathrow Airport is one of the engineering marvel of the 20th century.

@piggybakkers 2 года назад

The Three Magpies is still there!

@aaarrrggghhhh 5 лет назад

The last wolf killed in Britain was killed on the site where Heathrow now stands,

@apollofsx 14 лет назад

Fabulous.

@rabbithog 10 лет назад

6.01 is from a different film, the old man with the gardening fork is really looking up at a V1 going by believe it or not

@scottlewisparsons9551 2 месяца назад

Heathrow isn’t needed anymore. Everyone seems to arrive in little rubber boats from France! Lol 😂. I just thought I would be political, only a little bit. I love these old films, thank you for posting. All the best from Sydney Australia 🇦🇺

@guastalla1 14 лет назад

Very Very Nice! thank's for this work airboyd! from Italy LImc 36L :)

@ManxAndy 10 месяцев назад

That radar technology, was developed and refined at Douglas head on the Isle of Man, during the war, when Douglas was the first port in the world with shipping radar ….. which was advanced to the airborne warfare…👍🇮🇲

@Littlealan1959 13 лет назад

Croydon airport was London first international airport. HEATHROW is a fantasic airport. transport links to this airport is most likely best in the world

@user-ky6vw5up9m 5 лет назад

Northolt and even Hendon also had brief claims to being London’s Airport.

@zaidhalmahmoodi4129 4 года назад

Thanks AIRBOYD

@geoffreylee5199 2 месяца назад

Having the terminals in the middle of the runways was a questionable design decision; even then.

@ratioveritas9983 10 лет назад

Can anyone say where you can find an accent such as this one in the UK today?

@mulgee2241 8 лет назад

+ratio veritas bbc

@tomkent4656 6 лет назад

At least we can all understand him!

@jamesbrock9200 5 лет назад

@@mulgee2241 Not in this day and age!!!

@jordan4541 13 лет назад

heathrow!!! yeahhhh

@mulgee2241 8 лет назад

How heathrow wishes it still had that may runways

@user-ky6vw5up9m 5 лет назад

Apart from the two East -West runways the others had short lives and became taxiways, car parks, aprons or built upon. Runway 13-31 was retained as a short crosswind runway until relatively recently but was rarely used.

@roadie4360 2 месяца назад

But due to the layout of the many runways only two could be used at once. The other runways were also much shorter.

@brianmarshall1637 2 месяца назад

Main contractors Wimpey I see,they had the expertise and tackle.

@JollyRodders 11 лет назад

The thing about Boris island is you not only have to build an airport but a decent transport infrastructure to get people in and out. That means local rail, high speed rail, local roads and motorways. Then you need plenty of land to build houses for workers, and even more land for wharehouses and industrial units. Mabye it would just be better to expand Heathrow.

@jjwtj95 12 лет назад

Heathrow is back on the government agenda, fingers crossed they realise how important Heathrow is and do the sensible thing for the economy and expand the airport. Or at least allow mix-mode. Somehow though I doubt it. :(

@oferbarsadeh2920 2 года назад

has anybody found the kids from 2:33 yet?

@gregtaylor6146 11 месяцев назад

....... and not and indian nor pakistani to be seen, Blissful.

@chusan01 10 лет назад

British jingoism at its best!

@tomkent4656 6 лет назад

Pride, not jingoism. We had just come through a debilitating war!

@shv90210 13 лет назад

@nelrod03 London Heathrow wont be getting a new runway because the coalition government scraped the plan due to environmental concerns and budget shortages, i am so disappointed and what really hurts is that the airport needs the new runway and terminal six but the government will not allow it, eventually Heathrow will lose its advantages and lose its title as the airport with the most international passengers and the largest and busiest airport in Europe :(