Derby Road Drill Hall
History
The building was designed in the Baroque revival style by architects Arthur Brewill and Basil Baily as the headquarters of the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters and was completed around 1910. The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to the Western Front. The drill hall also served as the headquarters of the South Nottinghamshire Hussars.
The battalion converted to become the 42nd (Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters) Search-Light Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1940. This unit evolved to become the 577th (The Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters) Search-Light Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1947 and the 350th (The Robin Hood Foresters) Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery in 1955. Following the cut-backs in 1967, the unit converted back to become D (Robin Hood Foresters) Company, 3rd (Volunteer) Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment in 1971. After the unit moved to Foresters House in Chilwell, the Derby Road drill hall was decommissioned and, it became a postal sorting office; it was marketed in 1985 and later converted for residential use.
References
- ^ "Territorial Army Headquarters and Attached Railings". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ Pevsner Architectural Guides, Nottingham. Elain Harwood. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12666-2
- ^ "Nottingham". The Drill Halls Project. Retrieved 9 September 2017.
- ^ "Sherwood Foresters". The Long, Long Trail. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 13 February 2016.
- ^ "The Robin Hood Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 27 December 2005. Retrieved 9 September 2017.