Banbury

Oxford road
Town Hall
  • Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars) Yeomanry, D Squadron (Kelly 1911) and A Squadron (Kelly 1895)
  • 4th Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (C & G Companies), Town hall.
  • 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry (C Company)
According to Kelly, 1911, 4th Battalion Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (C & G Companies) used the Town Hall, which was already recorded in use for the Armoury of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry (C Company).

Rushers' 1882 Directory of Banbury also lists the Town hall as the home of the C Company Second Oxon Rifle Volunteer Corps. By 1893 the armoury was at the Plough Inn.
The Drill Hall complex in 2007. It is conjectured that
the WWI Drill Hall was the building on the left.


The conjectured WWI Drill Hall has apparently seen much alteration,
including the demolition of an adjoining building and re-roofing.


The use of ironstone and ad-hoc
arrangement of piers suggest this is
the oldest of this group of buildings,
and most likely to be the WWI Drill Hall..
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