Thanks R6915 so it was true. Maybe it was Staravia, they had several local yards at Lasham, Church Crookham, Finchhampsted, and probably others. IIRC they all closed down in the late 60’s. Maybe they finally relocated to these very private tunnels after using them for storage for some time? Interesting stuff.
Yes it was Staravia, they used the tunnels to store aircraft parts, much was stolen by scrap metal people. I knew the main Ascot yard & the Finchampstead yard very well & large sections of aircraft were in both, but mainly new parts or readily unboltable parts from scrapped aircraft like F-86 tail fins were stacked in large piles. Ascot in the late 70’s even had P-38 drop tanks in it! so who knows what was in the tunnels
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