It’s hard to believe the Union is in the dire straits some claim when you arrive at Winston Churchill Airport in south London’s Croydon. With its five runways and more than 110 million passengers a year, it is by far the busiest anywhere in the world.
Croydon Airport was already hemmed in by urban growth pre-war. I shudder at the scale of destruction needed to expand it to these dimensions post-war.
We're talking about razing the whole of South Croydon/Selsdon/Purley here ... 10,000s of homes ...
Heathrow on the other hand has more potential to be massively expanded from the 1950s, north of the Bath road etc.
ten million Frenchmen to the isles amid the 1940 exodus
With what shipping?
- Thoughts on the Nature of the English Identity, H. Martin, 2005
Loving this article. Very similar to some of things I envisioned for the later chapters of Sword of Freedom. I called it the 'Union Spirit' in my TL.
The Grand League in football is in particular something I felt was a near inevitability.
My major quibble is Elizabeth II reigning over France. It would never fly!