Hundreds of buildings, many listed and historic, will be demolished if Heathrow's Third Runway is built and with them the loss of fascinating history.

Monday 7th May 1945 was a day when everyone was waiting for the news that Germany had officially surrendered. When the news came that evening the people were ecstatic. Read how the Borough of Hillingdon went wild to celebrate the two-day VE day holiday.

The villages around Heathrow have been blighted since 1946 as successive governments have procrastinated and made bad decisions about expanding the airport. These former rural agricultural villages have been fighting airport expansion for eighty years, meanwhile the Grade II listed buildings have deteriorated and the community are exhausted by years of protest.

The Kings Head later called The Peggy Bedford is a Grade II listed Elizabethan building in Longford, Middlesex, that was a major coaching inn on the Bath Road (A4) for centuries. Now blighted by the prospect of the whole village being demolished under the Heathrow expansion plans, it lies, empty and derelict and on the At Risk register.

Mercury House the art deco HQ of Fairey Aviation Limited, Hayes, Middlesex

The Three Magpies pub and the pre-Olympic movement.

The Three Magpies is the last surviving building of the hamlet of Heathrow. It has a fascinating 300 year-old history from highwaymen to map-makers, and from athletics to Royal Hunts. This blog tells the story of some of its Landlords.

The Kings Arms in Longford, Middlesex, has just closed for good. This is the story of 250 years of history about this former coaching inn.

The Bath Road milestones measuring the distance from Hyde Park Corner are still in place today.