Silk Stream - Colindale Aerodrome and Station
Silk Stream The Silk Stream flows east and south TQ21449024 Industrial and trading area around the old airfield, with its Museum and other public facilities Post to the west Colindale Post to the east Hendon Town Hall Post to the south West Hendon Aerodrome Road An extension of Colindale Avenue. Built by German prisoners of war during the Great War to serve aircraft hangars for Grahame-White Aviation. From 1909 it was a showcase for flying, In 1914 the Grahame White factory was requisitioned as a Royal Naval Air School and an AAP and operated as a defensive airfield until 1916. Many storage sheds were built and in 1925 it became a Royal Airforce Fighter Station until 1949. Since 1963 it as been the RAF Museum. Many original structures remain. Sheds were established by the London Aerodrome Co. along the southern boundary of the airfield in 1910 and erected by Smith & Co. of Stratford. By 1911 it was owned by Claude Grahame-White. The sheds continued to be used by a