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Roland Perry · September 26th 16, 09:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In message , at 19:36:29 on
Sun, 25 Sep 2016, 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.

There is a 95 year old woman in our village who still goes on about it
at the weekly Coffee morning that is run by volunteers where such folk
can get out and have a chat.
Her father and family relocated to Hampshire but never got a business
established enough to provide for them all after that, so she married
young and has lived in Council accommodation ever since while her
brothers inherited the farm he did establish, at least a council
bungalow in a village like this is a world away from a sink estate in
a city.

Look on the bright side - they didn't die in the blitz or a POW camp (or
as a result of the wartime influences which caused the Norton Fitzwarren
rail crash).
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Roland Perry