page_title: Feltham
section_title: MOD Feltham and Feltham House
hierarchical_section_title: Feltham / Redevelopment / MOD Feltham and Feltham House
caption_attribution_description: English: Recovery Stores at a Raoc Depot, Feltham image: A row of long, green corrugated iron sheds with their doors open. There are sacks and boxes of supplies outside each shed. The interior of the shed nearest the viewer is visible and we can see down the central aisle of boxes and piles of rope and through the doors on the other end of the shed.
context_page_description: Feltham is a large town in West London, England, approximately 13 miles from Charing Cross. Historically part of Middlesex, it became part of the London Borough of Hounslow in 1965. The parliametary constituency of Feltham and Heston has been held by Labour Party MPs since 1992. In 2011, the population of the combined census area of Feltham, Bedfont and Hanworth was 63,368, of which around 49% had Indian, Pakistani, Afro-Caribbean or Eastern European family backgrounds.
  The economy of the town was largely agrarian until the early twentieth century, when it was transformed by the expansion of the London urban area. Most of the original High Street was demolished in the 1960s and 1970s. Further redevelopment in the early 2000s created the current shopping centre, which opened in 2006.
  Heathrow Airport is to the north west of the town and is a major centre of employment for local residents. Feltham railway station is on the Waterloo to Reading line, between Twickenham and Staines-upon-Thames.
context_section_description: Immediately adjacent to the town centre is the former Feltham Barracks, a secure 30-acre (12 ha) site belonging to the Ministry of Defence.
caption: Recovery Stores at a RAOC Depot, Feltham by Karl Hagedorn, 1945
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