When i was twenty something and living in London I worked occasionally for a friend who had a service station at the Ace of Spades on the GW Road. That led to running one myself in Hanworth for a year (or maybe it was Hansworth, is there such a place?). Many years later looking at my mother's marriage certificate I noticed that her address was in Heston (She never mentioned living there.) She was marrying a test Pilot, Mike Graves, in 1946 and that may well have been the reason for the address. (The first address I remember was in Derby, as he later worked for Rolls Royce.)
Although I was keen on flying, and had already worked as a clerk at Westlands for a year (in Yeovil) I had no idea I was living and working amongst all that History. Now, of course, I am far too far away to enjoy more than armchair investigation and History presented on Pprune.