London Colney: de Havilland Aircraft Museum 
Description
Salisbury Hall, located today just behind the M25 and south of the town of London Colney, was for a number of years the design centre for the de Havilland Aircraft Company and it was from this centre that the Mosquito fighter bomber was designed, a plane that helped the allies during WWII. The de Havilland Company was at one point the worlds major aircraft manufacturer and was the first to have a passenger jet flying with the Comet. The company has long since left the site, but today it houses a museum to the aircraft that the company helped to build - including several Mosquito's, as well as the only remaining Comet fuselage with it's catastrophically faulty square windows. I visited on the first day the museum had reopened following the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic and their Covid-Secure adaptions included not allowing visitors to go inside any of the planes - they can only be viewed from the outside for the time being
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Getting There
From St Albans the number 84 bus runs every 30 minutes (hourly on Sundays) to London Colney. The stop for Salisbury Hall is three stops after the giant Colney Fields shopping centre, and is first stop as the bus starts running on a road next to the M25, so it's easy to spot. Journey time is about 30 minutes. From the bus stop it's a 5 minute walk down the lane to the museum - well signposted all the way.Latitude: 51.710928; Longitude: -0.271631
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