AROUND HEATHROW:
PAST AND PRESENT
by Philip Sherwood

This book which contains some 200 photographs compares old and new scenes of an area that is now dominated by Heathrow Airport. The hamlet of Heathrow has disappeared but there are still vestiges of a village atmosphere to be found elsewhere even though this corner of the south-east has probably seen more changes in the last 60 years than anywhere else in Britain.

The book starts with a comparison of old photographs of Heathrow with the present-day airport. So much has been completely obliterated that it is of necessity brief as it is almost impossible to link the past with the present. It then continues with a journey along the Bath Road from Cranford Bridge to Mad Bridge at Longford. Here too much has been changed by the close proximity of the airport until Longford is reached where, surprisingly, much of the old village still remains. The journey then continues back from Longford via Harmondsworth, Sipson and Harlington, finally ending up in Hayes