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Drill hall

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The former drill hall of the 5th/6th Battalion, The Highland Light Infantry at Garnethill , Glasgow , which formed the 52nd Lowland Volunteers in 1967. It is now known as the Haldane Building and is used by the Glasgow School of Art .
Canadian soldiers undertake weapons training in a drill hall in January 2007.

A drill hall is a place such as a building or a hangar where soldiers practise and perform military drills .

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In the United Kingdom and Commonwealth , the term was used for the whole headquarters building of a military reserve unit, which usually incorporated such a hall. Many of these drill halls were built through public subscriptions in order to support the local Volunteer Force which was raised in the late 1850s. [1]

In the United Kingdom, these were later renamed Territorial Army (TA) Centres and later Army Reserve Centres (ARC)s. [2] As well as a drill hall itself, they now usually feature other facilities such as a gymnasium , motor transport department, lecture rooms, stores, an armoury , administrative offices and the Officer's, Warrant Officers and Senior NCOs , and Junior Ranks Messes . Some Officer Training Corps , Army Cadet Force and Air Training Corps units are also co-located on the site of modern Army Reserve Centres, for example Blackheath drill hall . [3]

Over 1,860 drill halls have been documented in England, with Historic England estimating that around 1,500 were extant in 2015. [4] Fifteen purpose built drill halls are Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England , dating from 1864 to 1907. [5] The Grade II listed [6] former Drill Hall on York Road, Great Yarmouth was built for the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Norfolk Regiment in 1867. [7] Other drill halls were converted from extant buildings, including the now demolished St Nicholas Drill Hall in King's Lynn in Norfolk . [8]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ "Denbigh drill hall" . Coflein . Retrieved 15 July 2017 .
  2. ^ "Galashiels, Paton Street, Mid Mill" . Canmore . Retrieved 13 June 2017 .
  3. ^ "Drill Hall Register: A list of the locations of London Drill Halls since 1908" (PDF) . Retrieved 14 May 2017 .
  4. ^ Historic England. "Drill Halls ? Introductions to Heritage Assets" .
  5. ^ Carmichael, Katie. "Drill Halls: A National Overview ? Historic England Report number: 6/2015" . Historic England .
  6. ^ Historic England . "York Road Centre (former Drill Hall), Great Yarmouth (Grade II) (1393653)" . National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 May 2020 .
  7. ^ Graham, Katie. "The Former Drill Hall, York Road, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk ? Historic England Research Report number: 95/2009" . Historic England .
  8. ^ "Chapel Street, King's Lynn, Norfolk: The History and Archaeology of the Chapel Street Car Park ? Historic England Report number: 2/2018" .

Further reading [ edit ]

  • Osborne, Mike, 2006. Always Ready: The Drill Halls of Britain's Volunteer Forces, Partizan Press, Essex. ISBN   1-85818-509-2

External links [ edit ]

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