Heston
As a small child in the late 1950s, early 60s I occasionally wandered off with friends to play in the wild, overgrown, spaces of Heston Airfield. There were the remains of an elevated AA gun emplacement (on what seemed like a massive hill to me then but which was probably all of about 10 feet above the surrounding land) on the north side roughly where the western end of the Convent Way Estate is now. In those days access to the old airfield was through alleyways between the houses in Wentworth Road. Much of the area to the south east (about where Heston M4 Services now are) was given over to gravel extraction by the Ham River Gravel Co.