In the children's science fiction novel Sister Ships and Alastair by Dominic Green, the Cardington airship sheds are the visible front of a vast underground complex equipping spaceships of the fictional Royal Space Force with cobalt bombs.

Today, the two Cardington Sheds can be seen dominating the skyline for many many miles around and are seeing a new change with the buildings surrounding them. Why Cardington? How did a small village some 5 miles from the centre of Bedford come to be the centre of Airship operations and excellence?

Oct 6, 2024 · Within five years, two state of the art, cigar-shaped silver airships roosted in the Cardington sheds’ enormous interiors, floated out to an awestruck public. But their potential was never realised, cut short abruptly by disaster.

Built during the First World War for Airship construction, one of the sheds at Cardington (Bedfordshire, UK) has been put to good use to house the cavernous sets for Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Inception by Warner Bros and many other movie projects.

Mar 26, 2022 · Next to the little village of Cardington, just a few miles from Bedford, sit two enormous sheds that dominate the landscape. At their peak in the 1920s the sheds (or hangars to some) were one of the hubs of the British aviation industry and the birthplace of the R101, the largest aircraft ever made in the UK.

In a daring operation in what has become one of the most heroic incidents in British history over 350,000 British and Allied soldiers were evacuated from the Dunkirk beaches in 10 days from 25 May to June 4 1940.

Sep 9, 2024 · Within five years, two state of the art cigar-shaped silver airships roosted in the Cardington sheds’ enormous interiors, floated out to an awestruck public. But their potential was never realised, cut short abruptly by disaster.

They constructed an airship hangar, the No. 1 Shed in 1915, with these dimensions: 700-foot-long, 180ft wide and 158 ft high, to enable them to build two rigid airships, the R-31 and the R-32. Enormous windbreaks were set up at both ends of the shed.

A site dedicated to the history of Cardington, the home of british airships, news from the Cardington sheds / hangars and pictures of the latest Cardington airship activity, as well as a collection of my airship poetry. enjoy

In 1977 CARDINGTON was used quite extensively as a storage facility. For example the Avro 504K G-ABBA was based here belonging to the RAF Museum. Other aircraft stored here were the Miles Hawk Major G-ADMW, DH.89A Dragon Rapides G-AHED, G-AITB, G-AITFand G-AJLR.