Industry
- Brickearth and gravel quarry and brick works: east of and adjacent to Heathrow Road / Cain's Lane junction, started in the early 1930s. At a survey in 1934 the quarry was 15.9 acres, of which 5.3 acres was lake. Later it expanded to the northeast and finally the lake was about a quarter of a mile long.
- A entry in the London Gazette for 6 July 1943 announced a meeting of the creditors of the Heathrow Brick Company under the Companies Act 1929, to be held on 9 July 1943.
- In and around Heathrow were various old small diggings where people had dug small amounts of brickearth and/or gravel for their own use over time. For example, a photograph taken in the early 20th century in Cain's Farm's farmyard shows a horsedrawn milk float and the ground is gravelled.
- Fairey Aviation's Great West Aerodrome
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