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Battle of Britain HQ Bentley Priory to be restored to former glory and turned into museum

The country house where RAF chiefs commanded The Few in the Battle of Britain is to be restored.

Seventy years on plans have been approved to create a museum on the site of Bentley Priory, the headquarters of Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding's Fighter Command during the Second World War.

Harrow Council's planning committee have agreed to incorporate a museum within the Grade II listed mansion house in Stanmore, north London, alongside flats, as part of the development of 103 private homes on land at the former RAF base....
Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)