Heston Airport

I spent the 1st five years of my life just off Heston Aerodrome at what was then TS Broke, at that time the Sea Cadet’s headquarters. It was later bulldozed and the International Aeradio building constructed on the site. Anyway, I can remember being taken to the now closed Heston by my father on his motorbike on a misty morning and I’m pretty certain he stopped to talk to an American serviceman on the site. The only other possible link was the arrival at the rear of TS Broke of the ex-Fairey Aviation Cierva C.30A/Avro Rota G-AHMJ. Due to the proximity and the fact that Fairey’s had hangars at Heston, I suspect the Cierva may have been relocated from their to TS Broke. Yes, this is the same one that latterly spent many years at Old Warden with the Shuttleworth Collection, before moving to Kermit Weeks Fantasy of Flight Museum in Florida.

Neil,

Since you lived in the North Hyde Lane area adjoining the old Airport perimeter, you would have been a good candidate for possibly seeing my mystery Miles aircraft landing unexpectedly at dusk in about 1955 since it would have made its approach from the east very near to you.-see this item in the archives section: “Miles M18 G-AHKY landing at Heston Airport”
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Airport Mystery

To state the obvious – you’ll find lots of Heston stuff on this forum using the search tool – including the catalogue of the last few off-the-ration flights at Heston. And also my still unsolved puzzle under “Heston Airport Mystery” which ceased to get any replies after January this year…

Dear Mike, Thank you. had a peek at your thread but suffering a bit of info overload at the mo with all the stuff i have yet to go thru on my thread, and i’m still a working boy to boot! yes heston was lovely then and i knew some springwell schoolmates in orchard avenue.

Heston airport

To state the obvious – you’ll find lots of Heston stuff on this forum using the search tool – including the catalogue of the last few off-the-ration flights at Heston. And also my still unsolved puzzle under “Heston Airport Mystery” which ceased to get any replies after January this year…

Never thought to see Job’s dairy mentioned here. We had their milk floats around the area that we lived then. The other side of LAP. And Rossi’s Ice creams, too.

Somewhere, I have an official photo taken pre-war at Heston (the photo comes with a typed description identifying it as taken at Heston) and a couple of other official pics that might well be Heston.

Heston References

Neil….At the bottom of the Wikipedia page for Heston Aerodrome there is an excellent list of books , magazines and websites relating to Heston. ‘Coming In To Land’ by Tim Sherwood is essential and I think it’s still available to purchase from Hounslow Libraries (the publisher) for about £13 (or can be borrowed from the library)…The ‘Airfield Focus’ booklet on Heston is very good but out of print (I think).

Re Milk deliveries in the 50s/60s…yes a day in the summer sun was guaranteed to ‘yoghurtize’ your doorstep pinta! The Job’s guy I helped had been a medical orderly so was left behind with the wounded when the Dunkirk evacuation happened and spent the war in a PoW camp …..Mick

Steady on! Might be a milk bill outstanding from 1958 🙂 Check your private messages (top RH corner this page).

pl. read private message and I have a lot of very interesting info for you.
ps we did have Jobs milk but consider the o/s bill to be a legal case well worth fighting especially as we shouldn’t have been charged for the yoghurts!
pps I was a milk boy with United Dairies of Hounslow High St. servicing the Hounslow West area in say 1965 on top of all me paper rounds (not with Ben W though) and it was b****y hard work Sat and Sun for 10s.

Steady on! Might be a milk bill outstanding from 1958 🙂 Check your private messages (top RH corner this page).

I think you lived in the 1950s built houses which replaced the derelict house I thought for a long time was the one hit by the Mustang…did your father work in movies?

yes yes yes he did. who the**** are you and do we owe you money!!!

I think you lived in the 1950s built houses which replaced the derelict house I thought for a long time was the one hit by the Mustang…did your father work in movies?

Scroll down the Collectair page on Woodason Models for a section on Heston
http://www.collectair.com/woodason.html
And there is a Yahoo Group which you can join
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HestonAirport/

Oh my goodness we lived at 3 North Hyde Lane, so near his house and grange Farm before the M4 destroyed so much around that area. Will have a good read. Thank you kindly for this.

Especially Google Earth, now that you can roll back to 1945.
There was a good website on Heston, including the distinct hangar and the large model building company that was based there, darned if I can find it at the mo.

Thank you so much. Installed google earth and found me way to the 1945 map. This is exactly the type of thing I wanted and I will have a good study of in time. Initial quick look was that the runway(s) path (s) not too identifiable but what did I expect -tarmac!!!!

As a Heston lad you will know the Southall gas-holders but for something different how about a Ford Tri-Motor flying at Heston with a gas-holder is the background!

Try http://www.britishpathe.com/ and put Heston Aerodrome in the search box.

Thank you so much – absolutely wonderful and so interesting. I knew there were experts out there, and you are one sir.

Heston Airport

Scroll down the Collectair page on Woodason Models for a section on Heston
http://www.collectair.com/woodason.html
And there is a Yahoo Group which you can join
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HestonAirport/

As many will say “Google is your friend” Loads of stuff there under ‘Heston Airport’

Especially Google Earth, now that you can roll back to 1945.
There was a good website on Heston, including the distinct hangar and the large model building company that was based there, darned if I can find it at the mo.

As a Heston lad you will know the Southall gas-holders but for something different how about a Ford Tri-Motor flying at Heston with a gas-holder is the background!

Try http://www.britishpathe.com/ and put Heston Aerodrome in the search box.

As many will say “Google is your friend” Loads of stuff there under ‘Heston Airport’