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2 January 2012: Photographs of Herefordshire's Drill Halls around 1910 (Bromyard & Hereford, Kington, Leominster, Ledbury and Ross-on-Wye)
10 May 2010: Link to follow us on Twitter
1 March 2010: Memorabilia - 40 vintage postcards of Drill Halls throughout the UK added - view
1 March 2010: Memorabilia - 40 vintage postcards of Drill Halls throughout the UK added - view
23 February 2010: Saving a drill hall - a resource bank - added
22 February 2010: Canterbury - Westgate Hall at risk - photographs and details added
18th August 2009: Cambridgeshire; Wisbech - photograph; Cheshire; Birkenhead – photographs; Liscard - photographs; Neston - photographs; New Brighton (Liscard Battery) – photograph; Cumberland; Workington – archive images; Derbyshire; Buxton – updated information; Dorset; Poole – map extract; Herefordshire; Kington - photograph; Leicestershire; Ashby de la Zouch – updated photographs and recollections; Swadlincote - recollections; Lincolnshire; Bourne - photograph; Norfolk; Thetford – photograph; Watton – photographs; Shropshire; Ludlow – photograph of site; Shrewsbury – Longden Coleham – photographs; Staffordshire; Handsworth – archive images and text; Lichfield – archive newspaper report; Stafford – archive newspaper report and picture; photographs; Suffolk; Haverhill - photographs; Ipswich – photographs; Woodbridge – photograph; Yorkshire; Batley – archive newspaper piece; Birdwell – photographs; Birstall – photographs; Hornsea – photographs; Howden – photograph; Knaresborough – addition information; Selby – archive image and text; Wetherby – additional information; Wales; Anglesey – Llangefni - information; Caernarfonshire – Pwllheli – photographs; Monmouthshire - Griffithstown – location information; Radnor – Llandrindod Wells – updated photographs
8 August 2009: Staffordshire – Wolverhampton - Additional photographs of Stafford St Drill Hall.
8 June 2009: Sussex – first upload of county section
24th March 2009: Derbyshire – Creswell – architect’s drawings of hall; Glamorgan – Barry – archive postcard; Hampshire – Southampton – archive postcard; Staffordshire – Burslem – archive postcard; Worcestershire – Stourbridge – archive postcard
27th October 2008: Essex – first upload of county section
30th August 2008: Hertfordshire – first upload of county section
19th August 2008: Yorkshire – first upload of county section
12th May 2008: Devon – first upload of county section
28th April 2008: Cheshire - Knutsford, Winsford (Over) and Wilmslow - additions to text; Gloucestershire – Cirencester - additional picture; Kent - Dartford – additional information, update and picture; Hythe, Lydd – additional information; Leicestershire – Coalville, Shepshed – additional information and photographs; Lincolnshire – Boston, Lincoln, Spilsby – additional pictures; Horncastle, Stamford, Spalding – additional information and photographs; Northamptonshire – Northampton – archive picture; Norfolk – Norwich – additional illustrations; Nottinghamshire – Bingham – additional information and photographs; Somerset – Frome – new photograph; Keynsham – additional information and photographs; Surrey – Dorking – updated information and photographs; Warwickshire - Birmingham – Aston – amended text
19 February 2008: Hampshire & Isle of Wight – first upload of county section.
24 November 2007: Dorset – first upload of county section.; Cumberland and Westmorland – first upload of county section.
12 October 2007: Buckinghamshire - Buckingham - photograph added. Wolverton - photos and information added.; Cheshire - Runcorn - photos and information added.; Cornwall - Hayle, Penryn, Redruth - photos and information added.; Denbighshire - Acrefair - photos and information added. Chirk- photos and information added.; Ruthin - further information about history.; Derbyshire - Creswell - photos and information added.; Herefordshire - Bromyard - information added. Hereford - information and archive photos added. Leominster - photo added.; Lincolnshire - Gainsborough - information and photos added.; Merioneth - Dolgellau - information updated. Tywyn - information and photos added.; Montgomery - Machynlleth - information and photos added.; Nottinghamshire - Nottingham - historical extract added. Retford, Worksop - information added.; Staffordshire - Lichfield - information and photos added.; Suffolk - Ipswich - updated.; Surrey - Reigate - Archive photo added and information updated. Wimbledon - information and archive images added.
20 August 2007: Surrey - first upload of county section.
25 July 2007: Berkshire - Maidenhead - archive photographs of the drill hall on Marlow road (site of the CWGC Headquarters)
22 July 2007: Denbighshire - Wrexham - text and photographs of the RWF Drill Hall on Poyser street added.; Herefordshire - Bromyard - photographs of the extant drill hall.; Gloucestershire - Cirencester - additional image added, dated 1905. Coleford - updated information.; Kent - Ashford - archive image added.; Norfolk - Kings Lynn - photographs added. Swaffham, Watton, and Wymundham - updated information.; Suffolk - Bury St Edmunds - additional image added of the Barracks, 1914; Newmarket photographs added.
11 July 2007: Shropshire - first upload of county section.
26 June 2007: Herefordshire - Hereford - text updated.
14 June 2007: Somerset - first upload of county section; Herefordshire - Bromyard - text updated.; Herefordshire - Hereford - text updated, images added.; Herefordshire - Kington - text updated
6 June 2007: Herefordshire - first upload of county section
4 June 2007: Warwickshire - first upload of county section
31 May 2007: Oxfordshire - Banbury - Oxford Road drill hall added with accompanying photographs
29 May 2007: Cheshire - Macclesfield - some photographs of Crompton Barracks added; Cornwall - first upload of county section; Denbighshire - Acrefair - drill hall added. Chirk - updated information; Gloucestershire - Campden - new information and photograph. Cirencester - additional image.; Kent - Birchington, Chatham, Cranbrook, Dover, Lydd, Maidstone, Ramsgate, Tenterden pages updated with information and photographs; Worcestershire - Bengeworth - updated photographs
26 April 2007: Cambridgeshire – Ely – new photograph of Barton road Drill Hall added; Norfolk – Great Yarmouth – three photographs added; Norfolk – Norwich – photograph of Cattle Market street drill hall added
24 April 2007: Cambridgeshire – first upload of county section; Huntingdonshire – first upload of county section; Norfolk – first upload of county section; Suffolk - first upload of county section; Cheshire – Frodsham – additional image; Cheshire – Nantwich – new text and images; Cheshire – Northwich – additional image; Worcestershire - Bromsgrove – additional image; Worcestershire - Tenbury – additional image
27 March 2007: Wiltshire – first upload of county section.; Wales, Montgomery – Newtown – additional material and photographs.; Anatomy – illustration of Drill Hall of the 7th London Brigade RFA added.
26 March 2007: Buckinghamshire – Wolverton – additional details added.; Cheshire – Stockport – another archive photograph added.; Lincolnshire – Stamford – information about St Peter’s Street added.; Radnor – Rhayader – extensive historical information added.
20 March 2007: Berkshire - Reading - photographs added.; Cheshire - Chester - Revised text for Thomas Street & Albion Street; Kent - Dover, Folkstone, Sandwich & Wolverton - text enhanced; Kent - Gillingham - photograph added.
14 March 2007: Berkshire - first upload of county section.; Kent - Tunbridge Wells - photograph added.
11 March 2007: Buckinghamshire - first upload of county section.
4 March 2007: Lincolnshire - Louth - two documents relating to sale of Rifle Drill Hall in 1946 added.
3 March 2007: Kent - first upload of county section.
15 February 2007: Anglesey – Holyhead and Llangefni – new photographs; Gloucestershire – Dursley:new picture, Bristol: updated amendment; Leicestershire – of Ashby de la Zouch and Market Harborough: additional information and pictures; Nottingham – archive image, 1911; Oxfordshire – Thame and Witney: updated information and picture. Oxford: updated information
28 November 2006: Leicestershire - first upload of county section.
27 November 2006: Lincolnshire, Grantham - Photograph of plaque acknowledging use as WW1 Auxilary military Hospital.; Gloucestershire, Dursley - archive documents and photograph included in Memorabilia section.
22 November 2006: Lincolnshire - first upload of county section.; Gloucestershire, Dursley - additional information and archive photographs.; Northants, Oundle additional photograph.; Derbyshire, Matlock - updated information.
7 November 2006: Northants - first upload of county section; Cheshire, Lymm: additional photograph; Cheshire, Sandbach: new information and photographs.; Gloucestershire, Bristol: images and information about the Ashton Gate premises; Worcestershire: Pershore: new information and photographs
22nd October 2006: Gloucestershire: first upload of county section; Cheshire, Stockport: postcard of Armoury Square prior to railway cutting added.; Radnorshire, Rhayader: photograph added; Brecknockshire, Brecon: two photographs added
1st October 2006: Derbyshire: first upload of county section; Stalybridge text updated & location map added; Conway: additional photograph; Wednesbury: Substantially revised with new photographs.; Memorabilia> Stalybridge: added (Book extracts & press cutting); Memorabilia> Conway: added (Photograph of St David's Day celebration 1939)

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