The Derby Road drill hall is a former military installation in

Nottingham Nottingham ( , locally ) is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located north-west of London, south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham has links to the legend of Robi ...

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. It is a Grade II

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History

The building was designed in the Baroque revival style by architects

Arthur Brewill Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur William Lancelot Brewill (17 May 1861 – 18 February 1923) was an architect based in Nottingham. Background and family He was the son of William Rastall Brewill (1804–1897) and Sophia (1820–1886). He was educated ...

and

Basil Baily Captain Basil Edgar Baily FRIBA (14 January 1869 – 1942) was an architect based in Nottingham. Much of his earlier work had to do with nearby churches. Background and family Basil Baily was born in Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, son of th ...

Pevsner Architectural Guides, Nottingham. Elain Harwood. Yale University Press. 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 South Nottinghamshire Hussars is a unit of the British Army formed as volunteer cavalry in 1794. Converted to artillery in 1922, it presently forms part of 103 (Lancashire Artillery Volunteers) Regiment, Royal Artillery. History Formatio ...

. The battalion converted to become the 42nd (Robin Hoods, Sherwood Foresters) Search-Light Regiment,

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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 The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot) (abbreviated as ''WFR'') was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division. The regiment served as the county regiment for Derbyshire, Nottingha ...

in 1971. After the unit moved to Foresters House in

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, 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

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