Derby Barracks is a former military installation in Fletcher Street, Bolton, Greater Manchester.
| 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 |
History
editThe 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.