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Old Jun 7, 2020, 12:58 am
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rapidex
 
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Originally Posted by southlondonphil
There's a watermarked version on stock photo agency Alamy here which dates it as 1938, though per Wikpedia British Airways had moved to Croydon by February 1937 due to repeated water-logging of the runway.


EDIT: This version from the Britain from Above website is captioned 1937
That would be because before LGW was built, the area was known as Crawley marsh.
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