Apparent hidden tunnel near leeds bradford airport

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Currently i have talked to two people who have actually been to this tunnel but unfortunately neither of them remember the directions, does anyone know the rough area of where this could be? And im curious as to wether or not there are any abandoned buildings in the area too, unfortunately some local dossers broke the windows to a building and got it boarded up, also naylor jennings is being converted in to apartments so thats off the table.

[DynamiteDaz]

Not something i've heard of! One of my ex-colleagues now works as an IT technician at LBA, i'll ask him if he knows of owt. Did the people say it ran into LBA or just near?

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Not through, just near. Its definitely derelict from how it has been described, and both descriptions of it are very similar. Almost like a long hallway and its supposed go go on for a couple of miles.

[Old_Yorkshireman]

There was an aircraft factory there, so tunnels may have been to avoid surface tracks showing on photographs.

Years since I was around there - is the old hanger like building still up?

[Bigtee999]

Hi
I now nothing of a tunnel but a little history of the site which may be interesting.

Yeadon Aerodrome, now Leeds and Bradford airport was at one time home to 609 Squadron of the RAF, had two runways, a taxiway and a hangarage which made it an important military aircraft testing site.

AV Roe & Company (AVRO) constructed a factory near to the aerodrome to manufacture aircraft for the RAF. The factory was connected to the aerodrome by a taxiway which allowed aircraft to make their maiden flights from the runway.

In 1939 with thoughts of an impending war led the Air Ministry to approach the aircraft manufacturer Avro and asked them to expand their facilities. So later that year construction work began on a factory at Yeadon Aerodrome near Leeds.

It was part of the governments “shadow programme”, the construction of factories built around the country for wartime aircraft production. The factory covered a million and a half square feet, at the time it was the largest single factory unit in Europe.

What surprised me was that it was designed so that a large part of the factory was hidden underground. The flat roof was camouflage to blend into the landscape. The roof was covered with grass, imitating the original field pattern. In addition, imitation farm buildings, stone walls and a duck pond were constructed in the area over the factory. Even dummy hedges and bushes made from fabric were installed and switched to match the changing colours of the seasons. Staff moved dummy animals around daily to fool observations from the air. It worked too as the place was never detected throughout the war.