Hayes

Hayes is located in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It was basically an agricultural town in the early nineteenth century, however with the arrival of Great Western Railway and Grand Junction Canal in the early nineteenth century, its industrial revolution created the town into a successful industrial unit.

From the early nineteenth century Hayes has never looked back and has progressed a great deal. Some of the first industries to establish themselves in Hayes were The Gramophone Company, which was also known as His Master’s Voice and latterly as EMI.

During the late 1930’s Godfrey Hounsfield created a computed tomography (CT) scanner for which he won the Nobel Prize in the year 1979. The Central Research Laboratories, which were established by Isaac Shoenberg developed 405-line electronic televisions.

During the World War years, Hayes saw the manufacturing of aircrafts through the company EMI. The need of a runway led to the creation of Heathrow airport which was taken over by the Ministry if Aviation during World War II.

Hayes also saw the major coffee and chocolate giant Nestle, which operated its UK headquarters from Hayes.

Some famous personalities who lived in Hayes were the famous writer George Orwell, famous footballer Glenn Hoodle, BBC director–general Greg Dyke and the members of seventies rock band Sweet. The most recent famous personality to live in Hayes was Anne Marie Duff.

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