"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 16:25:37 on Sun, 25 Sep 2016,
Mizter T remarked:

On a broader view, siting London's main airport at Heathrow was something
of a folly.

iirc it was farmland which was commandeered as a wartime airstrip.

meme
They only built Windsor castle at the end of the runway later.
/meme

From the kerfuffle about where to put the third London Airport, if people
had objected to Heathrow's expansion, we'd perhaps be stuck with one of
the world's busiest International airports in the middle of Croydon.

The issue with LHR being London's main airport in the wrong place is "should
it have been moved before T4 was given permission"

IMHO the answer to that is "Absolutely"

tim