The Cattle Market Street drill hall is a former military installation in

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History

The building, which dates from the early 20th century, became the headquarters of the Norfolk (The King's Own Royal Regiment) Yeomanry at around that time and of the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion, the

Norfolk Regiment The Royal Norfolk Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the British Army until 1959. Its predecessor regiment was raised in 1685 as Henry Cornwall's Regiment of Foot. In 1751, it was numbered like most other British Army regiments and named ...

in about 1910. The 6th Battalion was mobilised at St Giles before being deployed to

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and was subsequently disbanded in 1921. Meanwhile, in 1922, the Norfolk Yeomany converted to become the 108th (Suffolk and Norfolk Yeomanry) Field Brigade,

Royal Artillery The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is one of two regiments that make up the artillery arm of the British Army. The Royal Regiment of Artillery comprises t ...

with its headquarters at the Sporle Road drill hall in

Swaffham Swaffham () is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Breckland District and England, English county of Norfolk. It is situated east of King's Lynn and west of Norwich. The civil parish has an area of and in the U ...

but with 429 (Norfolk Yeomanry) Battery, which was initially based at Swaffham, returning to the Cattle Market Street drill hall a few years later. Following amalgamations during the

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, the drill hall was decommissioned and the premises are now used as offices by a firm of architects.

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* {{cite book, first=Norman E.H., last= Litchfield, title=The Territorial Artillery 1908–1988 (Their Lineage, Uniforms and Badges), publisher=Nottingham: Sherwood Press, year= 1992, isbn=0-9508205-2-0 Drill halls in Norwich