[6]: 23  The area changed hands several times thereafter, but by the eighteenth century, two family-names had established themselves as prominent and long-time landowners:[16] Minet[17]) and Shackle.

[19] The Hayes division served the local community for just short of a century, and in years gone by their own Salvation Army brass band performed around the town's streets.

[31][32] Lethbridge was at the time the youngest person to receive the British Empire Medal – in recognition of her service – and she wrote about her experience at the Hayes munitions factory in her first book, Fortune Grass (1934).

[41] Thirty-seven workers of the Gramophone Company, Blyth Road – then the town's largest employer – were killed on 7 July 1944 when a German V-1 flying bomb or "doodle-bug" hit a factory surface air-raid shelter.

It was alleged in the Parliamentary debate (as recorded in Hansard) that a "sort of ruthless developer is taking over entire sites in [the Hayes] area to build the slums of the future.

It was initially developed as a heavy-bomber base intended for Boeing B-29 Superfortresses, but when the Second World War ended in 1945, it was taken over by the Ministry of Aviation and became Heathrow Airport.

[65] Opposite Nestlé, on the other side of the canal, the Aeolian Company and its associates manufactured pianolas and rolls from just before World War I until the Great Depression.

Designed by notable English architect Walter Cave, Benlow Works (post-World War II owner Benny Lowenthal renamed the factory after himself) on Silverdale Road is a four-storey structure with Diocletian windows on the top floor.

Some partly uncovered pre-Reformation wall-paintings and a large mural (dating from the 14th century) of Saint Christopher with the infant Child are on the North wall.

The Grade II listed, early nineteenth-century presbytery, "Botwell House",[92] was originally the home of Hayes's principal landowner, John Baptist Shackle.

[95] Following its 2010 closure,[96] the derelict old Hayes Pool building was close to being used as a location for 2012 James Bond film Skyfall,[97] but in late 2012 the Council demolished it,[98] and in 2017 a branch of Lidl opened on the former baths site.

The Hayes Working Men's Club is on Pump Lane (from 1918 to 1974 it was in a large house called Sandgate on Station Road, where Iceland now stands).

[131] Glenister Hall (a former annex of the working men's club) and an adjacent sports-ground at the end of Minet Drive were closed and demolished in advance of a controversial 2011 housing development.

The Ambassador Theatre existed between 1938 and 1961 on the area of East Avenue, Hayes which is now occupied by the British Telecommunications Centre (formerly a GPO telephone exchange).

Some famous artists performed on stage at Hayes's Savoy Cinema over the years – Max Miller, Josephine Baker and Adam Faith among them.

The Church Road ground saw the start of the career of a number of players who went on to play at higher levels, among them Les Ferdinand, Cyrille Regis and Jason Roberts MBE.

Interim locations included St Christopher's Approved School and Harlington Scout Hut, until in 1978 the club was granted a piece of land at the back of Judge Heath Lane Sports Centre.

Shops include: Sainsbury's (replaced the popular Pump Lane branch, 1997[181]), Currys, TK Maxx, Next, H&M, Sports Direct, McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Costa.

Hillingdon Council encourages residents to report: incidents of fly-tipping, problems involving illegally parked vehicles, and potholes and road issues.

Galton and Simpson-scripted comedy The Bargee (1964) stars Harry H. Corbett and Ronnie Barker as boatmen operating a canal-boat along the Bull's Bridge, Hayes section of the Grand Union Canal.

[191] Poor Cow (1967) – a noted example of kitchen sink drama starring Carol White and Terence Stamp – was filmed partly in Hayes.

[197] The Sheraton Hotel on Bath Road, Hayes features in four films: Otto Preminger's final film, The Human Factor (1979) starring Richard Attenborough,[198] Michael Caine spy thriller The Whistle Blower (1986),[199] director Ridley Scott's thriller The Counsellor (2013),[200] and crime drama The Infiltrator (2016) starring Bryan Cranston.

[206] Comedians Freddie Starr (1993),[207] Frank Carson (1993),[208] and Mike Reid (1993)[209] & (1998)[210] have issued on video and DVD performances filmed at Hayes's Beck Theatre.

[218] BBC sitcom One Foot in the Grave featured the exploits of the curmudgeonly Victor Meldrew in an unnamed English suburb; Series 6, Episode 5 – "The Dawn of Man" (broadcast 13 November 2000)[219] – included scenes filmed on Glencoe Road, Hayes.

[220] BBC crime-drama Waking the Dead two-part episode "Multistorey" (Series 3, Parts 1 & 2; broadcast 14 & 15 September 2003) included scenes filmed around the car park above Iceland supermarket on Station Road, Hayes.

[280] In January 1936, King Edward VIII visited Hayes (while still Prince of Wales) in order to view the production of the Gramophone Company's radio instruments.

The Royal couple was received by former EMI chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood, who oversaw the company's expansion in the music industry, signing and marketing The Beatles and others.

[285] On 14 February 2013, Prince Andrew (seven years before withdrawing from his public role) visited TMD Technologies in Swallowfield Way, Hayes in recognition of its innovation and trade record.

[286] On 20 April 2017, William, Prince of Wales & Catherine, Princess of Wales (at the time, Duke & Duchess of Cambridge) and Prince Harry (at the time, a working Royal) visited Hayes, officially opening Global Academy, whose interest in mental well-being is in accord with the Royals' Heads Together mental health charity.

"[291] British History Online entries concerning Hayes: Cranford, Greenford, Harlington, Hillingdon, Northolt, Southall, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Yeading, and Yiewsley.