| Grange Road West drill hall, Birkenhead | |
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| Birkenhead, Merseyside | |
 Grange Road West drill hall, Birkenhead | |
  Grange Road West drill hall, Birkenhead Location in Merseyside | |
| Coordinates | 53°23′21″N3°02′28″W / 53.38924°N 3.04122°W Coordinates: 53°23′21″N3°02′28″W / 53.38924°N 3.04122°W |
| Type | Drill hall |
| Site history | |
| Built | c.1900 |
| Built for | War Office |
| In use | c.1900 – 1967 |
The Grange Road West drill hall is a former military installation, and now a sports centre, in Birkenhead, Merseyside.
The building was designed as the headquarters of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment who relocated from the Park Road South drill hall in around 1900. [1] This unit evolved to become the 4th Battalion, The Cheshire Regiment in 1908. [2] The battalion was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to Gallipoli and ultimately the Western Front. [3] [4] The battalion amalgamated with the 5th Battalion to form the 4th/5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion in 1921. [2] The 4th/5th (Earl of Chester's) Battalion evolved to become the 4th Battalion in 1939, just before the Second World War, and, although it continued to be based at Grange Road West, [5] it was disbanded in 1967. [2] The drill hall, being surplus to requirements, was sold, in 1969, to Birkenhead County Borough Council who converted it into a sports centre. [1] It is now the home of Birkenhead Trampoline Club and Wirral Gymnastics Club. [6]
Merseyside is a metropolitan and ceremonial county in North West England, with a population of 1.38 million. It encompasses the metropolitan area centred on both banks of the lower reaches of the Mersey Estuary and comprises five metropolitan boroughs: Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton, Wirral and the city of Liverpool. Merseyside, which was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972, takes its name from the River Mersey and sits within the historic counties of Lancashire and Cheshire.
Birkenhead is a town and ferry port in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, Merseyside, England; historically, it was part of Cheshire until 1974. The town is on the Wirral Peninsula, along the south bank of the River Mersey, opposite the city of Liverpool. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 88,818.
Wirral, also known as The Wirral, is a peninsula located predominately in North West England with a small area in North Wales. The roughly rectangular peninsula is about 15 miles (24 km) long and 7 miles (11 km) wide and is bounded by the River Dee to the west that forms a boundary with Wales, the River Mersey to the east, and the Irish Sea to the north.
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