Bethel Street drill hall, Norwich

The Bethel Street drill hall office is a former military installation in Norwich, Norfolk. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Bethel Street drill hall office
Norwich, Norfolk
The frontage of the Bethel Street drill hall office (with the green windows); the former skating rink, yellow building next door would have been suitably large enough to be used as a drill hall.
Bethel Street drill hall office
Location in Norfolk
Coordinates52.62846°N 1.28939°E / 52.62846; 1.28939
TypeDrill hall
Site history
Builtc.1895
Built forWar Office
In usec.1895 – 1920

History

No. 48 has a small 15th century undercroft. The existing brick building (mock Tudor rendering) was completed in the late 19th century.[1] The original home of the Ancient Order of Foresters, it became the headquarters of the 2nd East Anglian Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps[2] and, probably, of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment as well around that time.[3] The 1st Volunteer Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment, whose address was in St Giles (currently the home of the Salvation Army),[4] evolved to become the 4th Battalion, the Norfolk Regiment in 1908.[3] The battalion was mobilised at St Giles[4] before being deployed to Gallipoli and then to Egypt and Palestine.[5] The battalion then moved to the Chapel Field Road drill hall (since demolished) later in the war.[3] The Bethel Street properties were subsequently decommissioned. The building became a bible printers (Goose Press), and then Modern Press. The premises are now owned by a Climate change education charity, the Greenhouse Trust.[6]

References
  1. "42-48, Bethel Street". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  2. "Norwich". Drill halls project. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
  3. "4th Battalion, The Royal Norfolk Regiment". Regiments.org. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. James, Brigadier E. A. (1969). British Regiments 1914-1918. Naval and Military Press. p. 53. ISBN 0906304032.
  5. "Norfolk Regiment". The Long, Long Trail. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  6. "Find us". The Greenhouse. Retrieved 16 July 2017.
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