Report - Yeadon, West Yorkshire

Site of 3.7" HAA Gun Site of 644 HAA Battery RA

Example of 3.7" Gun in a open location


View from roof of Control Bunker (Note that bunker is flooded)


Predictor Plinth within the Control Bunker area



The site is adjoint to the farm, and used for lambing in the spring, sheep and lambs use buildings for shelter. Farmer does not mind visitors at any other time. Control bunker is flooded except in a dry summer, and only fenced to keep sheep out.
One of the Four prepared Gun Sites


Gun Plinth still show where bolts were cut to the ground
(Bolts would have been fixed in the plinth, with the gun bolted to it)


Ammo Locker around Gun Pit (6 in number)


Inside crew shelter - Crew sheltered here while on 'standby'
A Nisson Hut (Now demolished) near the farm provided warmer shelter on 'stand-down' during a shift.


Entry to crew shelter


View of another gun pit from top of control bunker

AVRO FACTORY


Rare WW2 Photo of AVRO Yeadon showing earth banks and camoflaged top.
Nearby Yeadon Tarn was drained and painted on the roof to confuse enemy bombers.


WW2 view of main assemby shed producing Lancaster Bombers.


2007 view of same doors still in use for a vast warehouse feeding Asda Supermarkets.
I was able to go inside, but photography was not allowed


The rest of the frontage. No longer with earth banking


One of the 'Emergancy Doors' showing its wartime parantage. Note the slopping sides and roof where the earth bank once was, and still patly is to the right.


This shot is further down where the land slopes, and shows an upper & lower level. Where I am told AVRO and a RAF MU repaired fighter aircraft by cannibalising crashed airframes.


I also found this tower which is just outside the boundry fence.
I think it is a Ventalation Shaft for the Harrogate to Leeds Railway line that goes underground at Pool Bank

ROC Group HQ No18 - Yeadon (Nr Leeds) West Yorkshire​

Third location in the Yeadon area is the ROC Group HQ across the road from Yeadon Airport Industrial Estate. For years it was hard to get to as it was within a secure vehicle storage compound. However recent changes means it is now accessible at times.

I am still however trying to gain access to the inside of this bunker by diplomatic means with the new owner. It has changed sinceits ROC days however as its last use was by the Royal Navy Reserve. So much of the ROC content has been removed.




Notice the modern looking air-conditioning units installed which are not NBC filters!





Not sure about the CCTV mast? I think it has more to door with the car compound next door, who used to own the bunker as well.


Standard ROC ladder hatch used as rear escape. Looks as if locked from inside.

Rather than start a new thread i will post my pic's in ordnance's thread as it's the same location...

Hope thats fine


Inside the H.A.A command bunker

Water water everywhere

Poss flagpole/comunication's antenna ?

Inside crew shelter on H.A.A emplacment 2

From the roof of the emplacment..you can clearly see the mounts and the lay of the driveshaft

View from top of the command bunker toward's the above gun emplacment

All four emplacment's(just) and control bunker