AIR RAID TUNNELS UNDER Kirklees College Huddersfield

[@caleblindley7142]

This was the old hospital before Huddersfield Technical college. The older part also used to be the library. I went here for about 4 years and can barely work out the rooms I used. Great vid.

[@martynstembridge7714]

This is Secret Vault at its best!! ...... No silly screaming, laughing and messing about ... Just Matt exploring an awesome location ...

[@kennethgardner3310]

Matthew goes were the devil 🤘 don't go to get the best out of any mansion and toilet.nothing missed nothing brokern just good all round reporting of these once over dressed mansion ballrooms and nicker draws only hand prints and footprints sometimes left..well done sir Matthew ballroom inspector's dream job..

[@g7puw]

that first room you looked at was equipped for electrical installation training for city and guilds Matt. its good to see you doing a few solo's mate much better than having the screaming banshees with you mate.The room you asked what them bays were used for again they were used for coursework assessments for electrical installations courses so the person can demonstarte a wirinf circuit using all the switches consumer units and cable management systems including testing and inspection.

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Bang on, brings back memories.

[@andy2e0lpa66]

I’m stopping work to watch this 👍

[@TheSecretVault]

quite correct

[@johnmccusker7393]

A vastly entertaining and intensive solo expedition well done matt

[@davesharo1159]

Brings back a few memories from when I was at college there. It was Huddersfield Technical College at that time, it merged with Dewsbury college a few years after I left to become Kiklees college. I'm pretty sure the room you were just before you found the yellow programer was one of my class rooms, where I studied electrical principles.

[@TheSecretVault]

wow. thanks for sharing

[@johnclarke2997]

Old Dewsbury College building on Halifax Road was empty when I went past earlier this year.

[@davesharo1159]

That's sad to hear. I moved away from the area about 11 years ago, and it's sad to see so many places are no more. (Batley Frontier was an absolute tragedy 😔)

[@jamescollins6085]

This complex definitely has the feel of a site that gradually expanded, rather than one that was built all at once. It's remarkable how intact the buildings remained despite so many smashed windows letting the elements in.

[@stevesvids]

Aye Up.... Ekky Thump Lad. Nice one Matt.... a perfect bit of Explore Goodness for my 2:30am wide awake session. All that space left there doing nothing. So much vandalism too.... every inch of it was messed up.

[@dagg65]

Just down the road from me! My dad worked there in the 80’s as a heating engineer. When he worked nights I’d visit him and we’d play snooker in the sub basement with the security guard. It was in the old doctors lounge, I didn’t know of any tunnels but it was a creepy place as it was once the Huddersfield infirmary

[@dagg65]

It was an infirmary first(old building )then a technical college and the new buildings added

[@martinsallenger5526]

Hi Matt great drone footage of the college this place was massive,there was so much left furniture, ect they could have donated or given away what a waste of resources this was. Great explor thanks for sharing

[@stefhatton2703]

Incredible explore Matt, I couldn't help but think going in on your own was crazy, how the heck do you find your way out after going so far in ....the place was a labyrinth just amazing !

[@ch4nfu]

All fully demolished now, great video by the way.

[@BlytheWorld1972]

A solo explore nicely done

[@evevening7995]

Hi Matthew 👋, Just found this video going through your videos for great entertainment, Thank you, Great explore 👍👍 The councils way of getting rid of old buildings is to let fire bugs in so they can burn the building down, I am looking forward to seeing more videos 👍👍

[@conradhaigh2500]

Wow the building is the old technical college for Huddersfield. All the lower floors were used for teaching plumbing and electrical stuff and there was a couple of rooms on ground level that were used for engineering (metal turning). It’s nice to see a old building in my town been explored

[@kennethbarker852]

1st class video to watch thank you take care kind regards from me kenneth

[@RiotinlondonW1]

Very good explore. With that high viz jacket on you will get in just about anywhere mate. Nice one!

[@TheGreatest1974]

Great explore mate. You’re game going around that spooky place on your own. 👻

[@Urbanlad-Yorkshire]

Love this place every time I have been here seen different things crazy place You need to get some telescopic ladders I got in the same way last time it is creepy on ya own cool video as always buddy

[@ColinHarperSummerson]

Definitely a Ekky Thump, what a size, what a huge area of wasted space, were you pleased to get out of there? Old staircase was nice, had the most character / style , think room after room much looking the same, walking for so long alone, i would have started to get a bit paranoid , certainly wouldn't liked to have got chased through that maze 🤔😄, interesting , thank you for sharing, do enjoy the variety you bring 👍

[@pascoebrock5877]

morning all nice one MATT

[@katlyons9444]

Hi Matt. Hope you are doing great. Awesome video. A good explore. 👍👍

[@georgesmith8113]

Good one Matthew! 👍👍👍👊😎

[@seanbainbridge7920]

Well done with that climbing Matt ☺️ it looked a bit dangerous lol but you always make great videos so entertaining 🙂

[@megamills150]

Great explore 👍👍

[@Seat1AJoe]

That location is rough! Cool explore, Matt.

[@hafeezrazzaque6459]

Nice video. Went to this college between 2001-2003. Bring backs memories, tottally destroyed thou, what a mess..

[@AndyUK-Corrival]

Wow what a huge site and such a Warren of corridors. I kept thinking how the fire brigade must have had a nightmare putting that out. All those hardwood lab benches and yet again so much waste and just about every area vandalised. Places like this need to be re purposed quickly before they get trashed. Andy UK

[@PaulaXism]

So sad.. I have very happy memories of that college and the great staggering home after an event to wake up on a strange sofa with a long trip home the next day. RIP Kirklees and your great times. My base was Manchester Rd in Bolton.. just a patch of mud now.

[@TheSecretVault]

do you remember it being a hard to navigate. Seemed like a maze.

[@debbie09090]

I’m shouting find the wool find the wool, find the toilet find the toilet. Good to see you got out 😄

[@petera8083]

Good explore Matt 👍 I bet you still couldn’t get a signal from that mobile mast 😂

[@TheOriginalGeekyNoob]

I don't want to speak ill of your "recent" co-explorers Matt, but, this is the best format - you don't need the hang-on's, keep out there doing what you do - sail your own ship, don't let the others use your sails.

[@nichs]

Great video Matt, @13:23 those little booths are for students that were doing City and Guilds or NVQ, if your doing decorating say, the booth would have a window, door and architrave, ceiling and coving, etc.., you would have your booth that's numbered and that would be your booth for the whole course.

[@MrSuperdoop]

Just like Spider-Man Matt 👍

[@Milford-Motorsports-VHS]

Awesome explore Matt!!! Do enjoy a random solo explore you do, Bet it's not so fun for you tho Is it all alone? Lol. ☺️👍

[@yagotitcovered5920]

Looks like the old hospital one in wakefield lol..

[@jonmatrix2033]

Dope spot

[@equaliser2265]

Your doing long distance jobs now , fantastic.

[@jakefearnley3103]

Hey TheSecretvault i know a few things abour the Kirklees College started life as Huddersfield Infirmary in 1831 up until 1967 when the Ramsden Technical College moved in, they paid £105,000 for the site. In September 1968 the first students began lectures and the first new building on the site opened in 1969 and there is a X-ray room till there and the they abandoned it has they built a new £47m purpose-built Waterfront campus at Chapel Hill.

[@robertmackiey89]

The college was just left as they built and brand new college in a different part of the town, and the tunnels you went down to start off with were part of the old hospital building which was later turned into the Huddersfield technical college and other building where added then it changed into Kirklees college.

[@100SteveB]

Such a shame the morons have been in and trashed the place. But what a maze of a place it is. Guess that would not have been such a problem for a college where your probably just concentrating on one subject, thus staying in the one area. But imagine a secondary school laid out like that, you would need a map to find your next classroom! But it's sad to see it messed up like this, there is a shed load of old and modern history in that place. Great explore Matt, with some difficult conditions to contend with. Was great to follow along.

[@debbiesullivan2390]

That climb would of been hard 😳

[@barbhenderson4867]

That was handy dropping in the toilet window for you🤣the building is a mess, such a shame to see x

[@theonlybigsmoke]

they just took them down, will forever be in our memories! ❤️😭💪

[@TheSecretVault]

THAT WAS AN AWESOME PLACE TO EXPLORE... BIG SHAME ITS GONE. GLAD I DID IT BEFORE IT WENT.

[@Outandaboutwithpoggy]

Another great tour Matt, drone shots best on KZbin, TFS

[@jackquack2979]

Did you find the large refectary in the old building?

[@Seat1AJoe]

Whoa! Matt does it again…as usual. Totally epic location. Epic efforts also.

[@josespiritus4011]

I do like the explore, it's a massive site. For me I think it would have been cool to just go through the basement alone.

[@debbiesullivan2390]

Been waiting all day for this ☺️☺️ Thankyou Matt 👌😎😎

[@UrbanSherman]

I explored this place 4 or 5 years ago on Facebook live. It's mad how much things get smahed up in such short time

[@JasonJohnson-yu8zf]

Just a couple of miles from me. Left in that state because kirklees council do the same to all old buildings, leave them to rot and decay under their own steam

[@keithbr9530]

At 1:23:03 you step over a 100 amp BILL switch , no copper or brass inside ! all other switchgear is M E M midland electric manufacturing

[@flightofthebluejay]

Hey mate Im local and im really trying to get into the college. I looked the same place you did and its still possible to climb. I noticed a security camera however and Im not sure how the exploration ended for you. I need some clarification about that camera

[@TheSecretVault]

No power on in that building so no security cams will work. If its a battery type from security thats a different matter however once your in your in... they arent coming in after you.

[@flightofthebluejay]

@@TheSecretVault What about the car park?

[@Fahimlord]

Where is this location?

[@equaliser2265]

Matt , where do you stay ,in a hotel or in your car? Cheers.

[@Andrea-73]

Thx Matthew 👍, huge place such a shame it's going to waste ❤️

[@edwarddebenham1416]

it really pisses me of how so much reusable stuff can just be left to rot ????????

[@fraggit]

Blimey, not bad climbing for an old fella. At your age I was expecting more grunting than that. I make more noise than that when I bend down to pick up something off the floor.

[@Dinkum_Aussie]

Great intro track and drone footage! Lmao, always take a tin of sweets in your pocket for an explore! 😂 But don’t forget you rattle when you walk! 🤣👍

[@nannyofmany8315]

This just proves that local education authorities have more money than they tell us! Why was it shut down? Has it been replaced? How long will it sit there as a Blot On The Landscape?? (Tom Sharpe) lol. Very interesting tho Matt. Thanks for sharing 😁

[@weedfreer]

to be fair, looking at the age of the place, the heating costs, and maintenance alone must've been reasons enough for it to have been relocated. That's before you consider the chances of asbestos having been used in its construction. These old buildings may look solid but, scratch the surface, they're an absolute money pit and a potential hazard to health to boot.

[@nannyofmany8315]

@@weedfreer So why not take it down, build affordable housing? Just a a thought!

[@weedfreer]

@@nannyofmany8315 yeah, completely agree...there's massive issues surrounding under use of brown field sites as a result of landlords keeping hold of the land and deciding not to do anything with it either to have as a 'just in case' plot should they ever need to expand or as a method to prevent competitors developing their shops/factories upon it. There is also the issue that old building constructed of old/oftentimes hazardous to health building materials cost exponentially more to demolish on account of the fact that they have to be surveyed for the hazardous materials and then taken down around them. In many cases like that it's cheaper to just allow them to rot...which is not good for the housing market and, if were released to developers, would bump up the cost of any housing built upon that land. You then run into the problem of the fact that housing in that area will likely have an upper ceiling price of lower than the value you could build the homes for. As such, either we have to take on the cost of demolition/redevelopment as the tax payer and then absorb the ongoing costs of council/social housing stock that gets built upon it or accept that the old husk of a building will have to remain in situ as it's the cheapest option.

[@nannyofmany8315]

Unfortunately you are right. Hence why it’s still standing, this Blot on the landscape. Until one day it is recommissioned for a business park enterprise or suchlike! Frustrating!!

[@weedfreer]

@@nannyofmany8315 yup, very!

[@edwardo8282]

If you went a few years back you would have had a better experience the building was hell of a lot less damaged. It’s absolutely beyond saving now which genuinely depresses me big waste pointless building another college

[@tedmosby9409]

tell me how you find them

[@michellegouda3170]

Such a shame to lose a massive training College.

[@truthsayer2885]

Great explore Matt and props to you for your solo excursion. Thanks.

[@philiphirst1310]

There are plans to redevelop the site, turning it into a mix of residential and some retail. The aim is to keep the grade 2 listed old infirmary building. But these plans have been in the pipeline for years. I've lost count of how many times that place has been on fire since it was closed. I'm suprised there is anything left.

[@Kris-69]

I landed in that building back in 64

[@benbaker2965]

Another great one from Secret Vault! The music and drone footage at the end was A+. 👍

[@belindamoles9192]

Can't get over how big that place is. Did they build a new college then? Loved the music at the end too x

[@engineslovetostartmatthew]

yes

[@wendybray2324]

where were the air raid shelters

[@KatherineD0506]

Listen from16:08 through to Matt saying Dead End and turning his camera I though i heard someone talking

[@robertmackiey89]

It wouldn’t surprise me as he was in the basement of the old hospital building at that point which would have been the old mortuary.

[@markodonoghue2049]

I was born there in 1966. In the old stone building known as the infirmary. Also went to the college in the later 1986. To learn about CNC programming. A big shame that it has ended like it has......

[@robertscholey109]

I am shocked as to how things building has be left in such a state when the Government are telling us they are short of money when so much money is completely wasted ! So close to home too !

[@MrJamezGamez]

They have far more money than you realise mate trust me... Its all FIAT money they can print as much as they like. They profit producing the the Paper stuff. Bank notes are Promissory notes.

[@callumhand943]

YOOOO this is the one i recommended to you!

[@daviddaviscrawford3669]

Always a awesome explore! I love the urbex videos!

[@grahamfoster9404]

Hi Matt,,,,,or is it inspector gadget , well thats who you reminded me of in the first few minutes and then out came the boiled sweets . Nearly wetting meself got to watch more. Lets get on with it .

[@Smurf778]

I get some Asylum vibes from this location and Matt's commentary is always exceptional... Stay Safe Out There and Keep Crushing 💪🐻

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Maybe the burnt area is the City and Guilds fire/arson department ?.

[@seanbainbridge7920]

You should of took someone with you incase something happened Matt ' I love watching your channel I try to watch two or three a night if I can ' I specially love those underground videos

[@TheSecretVault]

Normallly I would but it was an apportunity I dont get often to visit this place.

[@gaynor3976]

Been passed the college after times over the years but didn't know about the tunnels. Its great to learn about places that you don't live far from and learn some of its past history xx

[@greatestjourney6412]

Rise of The Secret Vault!

[@scottybee8]

nice seeing a college explore Matt Always love your outfit choice especially the yellow jacket and the camo bottoms

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

Every one of those buildings would have to have been connected by plant/maintenance ducts accessible by maintenance personal.

[@pauliecook432]

Exclusive guys. Next time your around London essex give me a shout I make bits too

[@3fus]

Lol, according to streetview the parking lot has a sign that says 2 pound for parking a day long, maybe that's the reason he was bugging you. ;-)

[@junetonks4835]

I can’t believe the risks you take getting into these places, scares me watching, another excellent explore

[@greatestjourney6412]

Re-watching in 2022.

[@mrantcor1981]

Its like they just left all the equipment behind and ran out of the building, reminds me alot of when i went to Secondary school to do my GCSE's. surprised the copper thieves havent been there, that place goes on and on, great explore Matt

[@conradhaigh2500]

This college has now been demolished to make way for a new Lidl supermarket

[@conradhaigh2500]

The chap taking the money for parking sits in his car and when you go in he comes out to take your money

[@ginnlew3404]

You would have loved stores Hall mental hospital matt wish I had filmed well wondering in there in the early 90s

[@nickjd2]

Man I have to say Wow

[@roberthenderson77]

Underground Overground Wombling free The Wombling Williams Hardcore is he, Making good use of the things that he finds, The things that the every day wanks, left behind, Brilliant filming, combined with sharp wit, Bunkers,and hospitals Then time for a shit...💩💩💩 (Solo) DO DO DO DO DOO DO DO DOO DO DOO DO DO DO DO DO DE DO DA DOO 👍👍👍

[@markwilliams5654]

Cool song

[@tatsnneeps341]

Last time i heard , what you are doing is trespassing

[@jay-ey8bz]

Hi matt mate the main man

[@OGGalleryCrew92]

Welcome To God's County, Yorkshire, Not Far From Me My Neck Of The Woods So To Speak ! The Home Of Rugby League !

[@Goldenhordemilo]

catchy beet

[@jgscatsandthings5208]

It's typical with that they are doing with the college's. I know a few people who went there. I know of a college that's getting closed down. A senior school my older sons went to, moved buildings ( for a high tech building). A school my youngest two went to, got shut down, due to it sinking into the mud an inch a year. There's also schools that have merged into one.... To save money!! Just pointless and doesn't help with the over crowded classes.

[@petereason4572]

Did anybody else notice the ghostly figure

[@ginnlew3404]

Or bro am a big fan would been great to have a chill with you

[@seanoliver4531]

Never done any exploring abandoned places myself but would love to go one day and if possible if I could join Matt and his crew of others that be great love watching your exploring vlogs 😎cool 👍