Armoury and drillroom at Bradford for the Third West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers, 1861. '...spacious and commodious volunteer barracks - the first erected in the United [have] recently been opened at Bradford for the use of the 3rd West York Rifle Volunteer Corps. These buildings consist of a drillroom 97ft. long by 60ft. broad, a gymnasium 44ft. by 20ft., an armoury 44ft. by 20ft.; officers', orderly, and committee rooms, each 20ft. by 15ft.; a room for cleaning and repairing arms, and a storeroom. A drill-sergeant's house and a stable form part of the buildings, which stand in the m
Armoury and drillroom at Bradford for the Third West Yorkshire Rifle Volunteers, 1861. '...spacious and commodious volunteer barracks - the first erected in the United [have] recently been opened at Bradford for the use of the 3rd West York Rifle Volunteer Corps. These buildings consist of a drillroom 97ft. long by 60ft. broad, a gymnasium 44ft. by 20ft., an armoury 44ft. by 20ft.; officers', orderly, and committee rooms, each 20ft. by 15ft.; a room for cleaning and repairing arms, and a storeroom. A drill-sergeant's house and a stable form part of the buildings, which stand in the midst of a drillground of about an acre and a half in extent. The whole cost is about £2000 - a sum which has been raised by the contributions to a bazaar got up by the ladies of Bradford. Mr. F. W . Delamy, a member of the corps, was the architect'. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.
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