East Street drill hall, Bromley

The East Street drill hall is a former military installation in Bromley.

East street drill hall
Bromley
East street drill hall
East street drill hall
Location within Greater London
Coordinates51.40761°N 0.01653°E / 51.40761; 0.01653
TypeDrill hall
Site history
Built1872
Built forWar Office
In use1872-Present

History

The building was designed for the 18th Kent Rifle Volunteers and was completed in 1872.[1] This unit went on to become E and F companies, 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Queen's Own West Kent Regiment in 1883[2] and the 5th Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) in 1908.[3] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to India.[4][5] After the battalion amalgamated with the 4th Battalion to form the 4th/5th Battalion at the Corn Exchange in Tonbridge in 1947, the East Street drill hall was decommissioned and converted for retail use.[6]

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gollark: There are things which convert the event thing into callbacks, and you can run multiple things at once using `parallel`, but otherwise no.
gollark: When you do `os.pullEvent`/`coroutine.yield`, your code pauses until it receives an event.
gollark: Your code is only resumed/executed when there is an event.
gollark: That's just... not how the coroutine system works.

References

  1. "Bromley". The drill hall project. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  2. Bromley Directory. 1903. p. 149.
  3. "5th Battalion, The Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment". Regiments.org. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  4. "Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
  5. "Bank Street drill Hall". Kent in World War I. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
  6. "O'Neill's Bromley". O'Neill's. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
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