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Formerly known as Leavesden Film Studios and still colloquially known as Leavesden Studios or simply Leavesden, it is a film and media complex owned by Warner Bros. The studios were all converted from an aircraft factory and airfield called Leavesden Aerodrome , a centre of British aircraft production during World War II .
Leavesden, Hertfordshire, an area of Watford, Hertfordshire, England; Leavesden Aerodrome, a former airfield in Leavesden, Herts. Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, a film and media complex owned by Warner Bros. on the site of the former Rolls-Royce factory at Leavesden Aerodrome; Leavesden Hospital, on the outskirts of Abbots Langley, England
Leavesden Country Park (north) is also the home of Leavesden junior parkrun, a free, weekly, timed 2 km run for 4-14 year olds every Sunday at 9am which is entirely dependent on volunteers. Also, what was based on the old airfield site, now accessed along High Road, Leavesden sits 2F (Watford) Squadron of the Air Training Corps.
Kenneth Bannerman says his obsession began as a nine-year-old during a visit to a poultry farm.
By the end of the war Leavesden Airfield was, by volume, the largest factory in the world. [2] After the war, the aerodrome was purchased outright by de Havilland, who themselves had a succession of owners in the following decades but ultimately they and the site were acquired by Rolls-Royce. However, by the early 1990s, Britain's manufacturing ...
Leaside Aerodrome 1917–1918 (Artillery Cooperation School) Long Branch Aerodrome 1917–1918 Curtiss School of Aviation (flying-boat station with temporary wooden hangar on the beach at Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island 1915–1918; main school, airstrip and metal hangar facilities at Long Branch)
In January 2020, Little Staughton Airfield and Industrial Park applied for planning permission to develop the site to re-open the airfield. [6] By December 2021 IAE had constructed a new hangar and re-opened half of the runway. [7] There is also a solar farm and an industrial estate reusing the old airfield buildings.
The airfield continued to be a terminus for long-range transport operations to Europe, the Middle East and India. The following units were here at some point: [1] No. 6 (RCAF) Casualty Air Evacuation Unit; No. 10 Squadron RAF; No. 21 Heavy Glider Conversion Unit RAF; No. 76 Squadron RAF; No. 77 Squadron RAF; No. 91 (Forward) Staging Post