The Albert Road drill hall is a former military installation in

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History

The building was designed as a mission hall for All Hallows' Church, Ordsall and was completed around 1860. After an extension to St Alban's Church, Ordsall was completed in 1913, the

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had sufficient capacity and regarded the hall as surplus to requirements. Instead it became the headquarters of the

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in 1914. The regiment was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to Gallipoli. After a modern Territorial Army Centre was established in Hallcroft Road, the hall was decommissioned and was used as a

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Sunday School Centre and then as a storage facility.

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