I was born in 1938, nonetheless there are some memories of WW2 that may be of some use. The air raid shelter we had I have not heard of elsewhere but this may just be because no one knows of the ...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of photographs belonging to John Wilton Rix that were taken at Hendon Aerodrome circa the 1910s. There are eighteen black and white prints in total, ranging ...

We got a lot of bombing because we were less than a mile from the Hendon Fighter Station. As a children we’d go to any of the bomb damage nearby to see what was there, and to have somewhere to play.

With its starting and end point at Hendon Aerodrome (today home to the RAF Museum), the race took in a route of roughly 81 miles (later closer to 100), encircling much of London, in a series of ...

My family had evacuated to a village near Didcot but within 6 months they were back home in Hendon. We had an Air Raid shelter built inside the garage which you can imagine was not very big.

Original surrogates are available on their website. Scope and Contents This series consists of 16 digital images depicting 'Hendon aviators' with aircraft at Hendon Aerodrome in London, England before ...

It's almost 10 years since developer St George started building homes on former Hendon Aerodrome in north-west London, Britain's "cradle of aviation" where the first UK loop-the-loop and parachute ...

One note says: “The Prime Minister will arrive tomorrow by air at Hendon Aerodrome. Please have police car in readiness.” ...