Derby Barracks, Bolton
| Derby Barracks | |
|---|---|
| Bolton | |
 Derby Barracks | |
  Derby Barracks Location within Greater Manchester | |
| Coordinates | 53°34′16″N 2°26′00″W / 53.57119°N 2.43342°W |
| Type | Drill hall |
| Site history | |
| Built | Early 1860s |
| Built for | War Office |
| In use | Early 1860s-2006 |
Derby Barracks is a former military installation in Fletcher Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester.
History[edit]
The original Fletcher Street drill hall was designed as the headquarters of the 27th Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps and established by conversion of an old workhouse in the early 1860s.[1] This unit evolved into the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1883 and the 5th Battalion, The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment in 1908.[2] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front[3][4] and was still based there at the start of the Second World War.[5]
After the Second World War the drill hall was substantial rebuilt[1] and renamed Derby Barracks after Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, who had been honorary colonel of the battalion.[6] Following the cut-backs in 1967, the presence at the barracks was reduced to a single detachment of C Company, 4th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment in 1975[7] but expanded again to company strength when C Company established its main base there in 1986.[7] The barracks were still used as a Territorial Army Centre in the late 1990s[8] but were decommissioned and converted for charitable use in 2006.[9]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Bolton Urban Historic Landscape Characterisation" (PDF). University of Manchester. p. 150. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "5th Battalion, The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "Territorial Force depots". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "Army List 1937" (PDF). War Office. p. 587. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "No. 28204". The London Gazette. 11 December 1908. p. 9470.
- ^ a b "4th Battalion, The Queen's Lancashire Regiment". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "What's on in and around Bolton". Bolton News. 2 November 1998. Retrieved 19 September 2017.
- ^ "Barracks in the front line against poverty". Bolton News. 2 June 2006. Retrieved 19 September 2017.