Territorial Army Drill Hall, Ardwick Green, Manchester
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Territorial Army Drill Hall, Ardwick Green, Manchester
Image: © Tricia Neal Taken: 13 Sep 2013
Near Ardwick Green North stands the Territorial Army Drill Hall and Offices, built in 1886 to a design by Lawrence Booth. Pevsner describes the building as "Three storeys with a battlemented roofline, rubble with ashlar dressings. Central entrance bay, corner tower with tall octagonal turret." Today it is home to D Company (Inkerman) of the 4th Battalion, Duke of Lancaster's Regiment - Infantry. Once this building was home to the famous 8th Ardwicks, the Eighth Territorial Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. On 4th August, 1914, the Battalion was mobilized from here and first set up camp near Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough. On 10th September 1914 they set sail from Southampton for Egypt. On May 6 1915 they arrived at Galipoli. In the park across the road from the drill hall is a memorial to those who died in that war.
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