Leeds Bradford Airport has marked a major milestone in its £100m terminal expansion with the burial of a time capsule which is not to be opened until 2075.
00:00What will you be doing in 2075? That's the year when this time capsule will next be seen and opened.
00:07Callum Watkins and Tom Nicholson-Watton from Leeds Rhinos and Mitch Souter from Bradford Bulls attended a burial ceremony at Leeds Bradford Airport as it marks a key milestone in its £100m terminal regeneration project.
00:20Among the buried items are an RAF 609 West Riding Squadron plaque celebrating the airport's heritage as a former Royal Air Force Base.
00:29There's also a Leeds United scarf, Bradford Bulls match day tickets for 2075 and a letter from LBA's CEO to the airport's future leader.
00:38It fits a lot of stuff inside. What's great for me is that there's so much in there from young people in our community today.
00:45So lots of artworks, letters, keepsakes, just little bits and pieces out of people's lives, which in 50 years time people will look at and go, oh, how interesting.
00:56That's what they put in. But I think there's something great as well about having kids involved in the process is that most of those kids will still be alive in 50 years when it opens and they can then go back and remember what they were doing at the time that the capsule was buried.
01:11We're very clear that the airport has been under-invested for a very long time. And the building behind us really symbolises a complete change in that process.
01:20We are building the airport that Yorkshire deserves. Our community deserves a great airport so we're trying to build a great airport for the community and this is a way of commemorating that massive step that we're taking from an old generation into a new generation for the future.
01:36I've put in a sunflower lanyard because I have Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and the airport has helped me massively with their special assistance so that's why I've put in the time capsule along with their leaflet about Ehlers-Danlos and a painted rock.
01:50We were still at the Walk of Art Fed last summer didn't we?
01:53Yeah.
01:54We encouraged the children to do something and we chose the piece of artwork that's gone in so it's a copy of it that's gone in.
02:06And it's by a young lady called Lucia. We'll try and find her and inform her that her piece of artwork has gone into the time capsule.
02:14It is quite a long time so a lot could potentially happen in that time but I'd like to think that Horstworth is still thriving as it is now. I think Horstworth is only going to get better and I think this is part of it.
02:25It's nice for the residents of Horstworth to know that the council are prominent and they're doing what we can for the community.
02:34My favourite moments from the last 12 months have been the very first passengers coming into the departures area in the new terminal, jaws dropping and you could just see every single one was going through and saying wow.
02:46And the other one was a small group of guys that were some of the first arriving passengers coming into the terminal having to go up and ask a staff member if they'd actually arrived in Leeds because they weren't entirely sure. That shows you the difference that we're making.
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