Submarines
One of the things that often fascinates me is how Huddersfield some 50 miles from the Sea played a role in the coastal defences during World War 2. How?
Thomas Broadbent's & Son, a centrifuge maker still in existence today, put their engineering skills to good work during the war making XE boats. The site of the factory is now part of the university, which has been redeveloped and had the Barbarbrs Hepworth Building built on the site.
Photograph of the Barabara Hepworth Building home of Arts and Architecture Courses
But during the second world war, Broadbents was manufacturing the X Boat or Midget Submarine. The midget submarines were over 16 metres long, and so not that easy to hide, yet they were disguised as they left the works in Huddersfield as large motor boats making them less of a target.
As she is today in Chatham Dockyard
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