On 25/09/2016 17:54, Roland Perry wrote:

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.

Which was only a pretence conjured up by Harold Balfour and others in
order to establish a fact on the ground - i.e. a big aerodrome - using
wartime requisition powers.


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.