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Notable historical residents include the early modern "father of English music", William Byrd , and a pre-eminent figure of twentieth-century English literature , George Orwell.

The town's name is spelt Hessee in a entry in an Inquisition post mortem held at The National Archives. For some years up to , Hayes formed part of the Archbishop of Canterbury 's estates, ostensibly owing to grants from the Mercian royal family.

The area changed hands several times thereafter, but by the eighteenth century, two family-names had established themselves as prominent and long-time landowners: Minet and Shackle. John Wesley and Charles Wesley , founders of the evangelical Methodist movement, preached in Hayes on at least ten occasions between and The Salvation Army - founded in in London by William Booth - registered a barracks in Hayes between and ; their hall in Coldharbour Lane was registered in In the 18th and 19th centuries, Hayes was home to several private boarding schools catering for wealthy families.

Until the end of the nineteenth century, Hayes's key areas of work were agriculture and brickmaking. The town's favourable location caused the Hayes Development Company to make available sites on the north-side of the railway, adjacent to the canal, and Hayes became a centre for engineering and industry. Residential districts consisting of dwellings of the garden suburb type were built to house workers after World War I. In the parish council created Hayes Urban District from , Hayes and Harlington Urban District in order to address the issue of population growth.

The school has since closed and the building is now the Fountain House Hotel. The hotel bears a plaque commemorating its distinguished former resident. The population seems to be entirely made up of clerks who frequent tin-roofed chapels on Sundays and for the rest bolt themselves within doors. Thirty-seven workers of the HMV Gramophone Company, Blyth Road - then the town's largest employer - were killed on 7 July when a German V-1 flying bomb or "doodle-bug" hit a factory surface air-raid shelter.

The original bomb census form, now held in the National Archives , confirms that it was a flying bomb which landed at The bomb came down at the main entrance to one shelter, causing the concrete roof to collapse. Some of the badly injured were able to be rescued from the emergency exit at the rear, but others were trapped for some hours. Twelve of the victims are buried in a mass grave in Cherry Lane Cemetery.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II visited Hayes town centre on 19 May as part of a programme of visits in celebration of her 80th birthday. Heinz Company. The first large factory established was that of the British Electric Transformer Company affectionately known as the B. The B. Berry the company's technical adviser and a member of the board of directors ; Berry also invented the Tricity cooker.

The Hayes factory's foundation stone was laid by Dame Nellie Melba. Alan Blumlein carried out his research into binaural sound and stereophonic gramophone recording here. These films are held at the Hayes EMI archive. In , working alongside the electrical firms A. In an echo of Blumlein's early stereo recordings, the Sensaura engineers made some of their first 3D audio recordings at Hayes Station.

Charles Richard Fairey was seconded there for a short time, before setting up his own company, Fairey Aviation, which relocated in to a large new factory across the railway in North Hyde Road. Over 4, aircraft were subsequently produced here, but Fairey needed an airfield to test these aircraft and in secured a site in nearby Heathrow.

It was initially developed as a heavy-bomber base intended for Boeing B Superfortresses, but when the Second World War ended in , it was taken over by the Ministry of Aviation and became Heathrow Airport.

In , German bodybuilder Eugen Sandow - famous in his time as "Sandow the Great", a contender for the title of world's strongest man - opened a cocoa factory in Hayes. Sandow's fortunes plummeted in World War I.

The Sandow Cocoa Company went into liquidation, and the building and assets passed to the Hayes Cocoa Company in That, and the increasing sophistication of the gramophone record market, led to its demise. Its facilities were subsequently used by, among others, Kraft Foods and Wall's , a meat processor and ice cream manufacturer.

Only one of the Aeolian Company's striking Edwardian buildings remains. It is Grade II listed. The company was started by Major C. Fleming-Williams after being demobilised from the R.

There is a Car Cruiser Owners' Club, and several examples built in Hayes survive among the membership. Next to this and continuing around the corner into Church Green stood Hayes Fire Station, two of the buildings which faced Church Road; one of which housed the pump and the other an ambulance have long since gone when the new fire station opened in Shepiston Lane.

However, the large wooden building, which once housed the magnificent wheeled-escape with its huge cartwheels and hand cranked extension ladder, still survives and at present is used by the London Ambulance Service. Directly behind this building in the yard at the back was the drill or hose drying tower, On many occasions we would go here to watch the firemen practising their skills with nook ladders.

To the left of the Lych Gate stood the large house and grounds of Hayes Court which backed onto the park,this was a strange shaped building and during the 60's was owned by a J. Harris,but we were told originally belonged to a Major Shuter.

Gradually falling into disrepair it was finally demolished to make way for the present houses and the enlargement of the park. We are now in the area which is often regarded as the centre of any community the church,St. I was baptised here and attended the Sunday School and also at the old Dr.

The local priest tnen was Fr. Growns who lived in Holmbury Gardens. I think the churchyard and surrounding area was somewhat better maintained then than it appears to day. In Church Road the first house past the churchyard belonged to Dr. Smart who was our family doctor, he later moved to the New Surgery at the Warren on the Uxbridge Road. I can rember going here when I was quite young with the then common complaints such as measles,mumps and chickenpox, a little further along was another doctor by the name of Dr.

On the opposite side of the road facing the church is the Manor House,although this now forms part of a sheltered housing complex it was in the 's still being used as the education offices. On returning to the Lych Gate at the entrance to the church one could walk through the alleyway past the church where you come to a junction,to the left would take you into Church Walk past the old Dr. Tripletts School and the rows of cottages, such as Surprising Villas and Beehive Cottages not forgetting Prices general stores and post office.

Returning to the junction in the alleyway you could also carry on straight between the churchyard,where you came to an iron swing gate,passing through this you would enter what we called the cow fields for obvious reasons as they were always full of cows; I believe they belonged to Daltons Dairy. Having crossed this rather large field you would exit either opposite the Adam and Eve,or at the Grange Road end of the Uxbridge Road, again via iron swing gates.

Elms who had been our family doctor prior to Dr. Smart Also tucked away in this somewhat quiet little corner of Hayes was the cricket club and the botanic gardens,by following another path past the cricket club one could exit at the bottom of Grange Road and continue up past the Queen's Head now the Grange and into Wood End Green Road,passing on the way,London House general stores,and Hayes County Grammar School, now Hayes Manor.

Besides the many shops and businesses in Hayes Town itself there were also,as there still are the wide variety which run along the Uxbridge Road,which we always called the High Road, stretching from the Grapes past Lansbury Drive and into Hayes End. Of course many of the long established firms have now gone from the area,but nevertheless it still remains a rather busy shopping parade. During the 50's and 60's there were several firms along this stretch of road who also had premises in Hayes Town such as the L.

Approved school Beginning at the Grapes junction at the top of Coldharbour Lane which was widened within recent years ,on the side of the road where Pizza Hut and Sainsburys shopping centre now stands,there stood the huge building of St. Christophers Approved School. I can still see this large sprawling building with its long iron fire escapes,my parents always used to call it the Jew School,and I warned on several occasions that if I misbehaved I would end up at the naughty boys school.

One intriguing point here is that when they widened the junction,the large horse chestnut tree which originally stood just inside the fence of the school was left in situ and is now on what is the other side of the road near the public lavatories.

Directly behind these stretched the large grassed area which continued right up to Church Road,part of which consisted of the very large communal air raid shelters which had to be dug up prior to the building of the present flats. This was quite a major task and I remember during my time at Townfield School we would walk up Central Avenue in our lunch break to watch the progress,I can recall looking down one of the entrances,the iron ladders going down into the darkness,I should think to about twenty feet,and then leading off into somewhat extensive passageways.

Some of the firms along the opposite side of the road that have now gone include, Godbolds the butchers,the Craven Fish Shop Thomas Hall Toy Shop, Goodriches hardware store,Gerrards greengrocers and Knights Florist,wlio also had a shop on Hayes Station bridge and of course their large nursery at Hilliiigdon.

In the years between the wars the bulk of house and factory building took place, a large part of the former being a result of the industrial development. By Botwell was described as the modern shopping and residential area of Hayes, and between and the council erected 'working-class houses' at Botwell.

Balmoral Drive was extended; Warley Road and the Shakespeare Avenue area were built up; and there was further development in and around Yeading. There was also some further building south-west of Judge Heath Lane and north of Botwell.

Industry was increasing and housing was in short supply. The layout of the area was 'crude and monotonous' and the parish was considered deficient in open spaces. By May the council had erected 2, houses and flats in Hayes. The area lying between Wood End and the parish church at Hayes, however, remained in the s almost unaffected by the spread of building elsewhere. The extensive graveyard and, adjacent to it, the grounds of former private houses with established trees gave the church a surprisingly peaceful setting.

South-west of the church is Hayes Court, a farm-house owned by the Minet family from until fn. The house stood derelict in , when there were plans to build on the site. Until after these cottages overlooked a pond, as did others, demolished by , which stood next to the lychgate. Angel Lane, Morgan's Lane and other roads off both sides of Woodend Green Road contain many brown brick houses and cottages of the early 19th century and later.

In contrast to Hayes village, now served mainly by shops in Uxbridge Road, Botwell has developed as a shopping and industrial centre. Botwell House, Whitehall, and Bell House, fn. Although a victualler, Mary Hill, is mentioned c. At Domesday people were recorded on the manor of Hayes.

Of these one was a priest, 3 were knights, and 74 were villeins; there were also 16 bordars, 12 cottars, and 2 serfs. In there were communicants in the parish of Hayes.

This figure had increased to 2, by A large increase in is accounted for by the opening of the St. Marylebone parochial schools and by the erection of large numbers of cottages for brick-workers. A slow increase until was followed by a slight decline, so that in there were only 2, people in the parish. The population had nearly doubled by and ten years later numbered over 6, people. Since that date the population has risen steeply to over 19, in and to 49, in The total population of Hayes and Harlington was 67, in