subtitle 'City of London Rifles'. The battalion built a new drillhall at 57a FarringdonRoad in 1887–8. The City of London Livery companies contributed...
Theatre - 50 (Kensington) Donmar Warehouse - 250 (Covent Garden) The DrillHall at RADA Studios, Studio - 200; Club - 50 (Fitzrovia) Erith Playhouse -...
ones of Clerkenwell Road to the north, FarringdonRoad to the east, Holborn and Charterhouse Street to the south and Gray's Inn road to the west. Baldwins...
Navigation Canal in 1767 and the arrival of the railway in 1843. The Port Hill drillhall was completed in 1898 and Yeomanry House was brought into military use...
drilling technique, which had only recently been developed. It involved either undercutting the tunnel and bringing down the back using diamond drill...
raided Margate, Sheerness and Chatham Dockyard, where a bomb fell on a drillhall full of sleeping naval recruits; 138 died and 88 were injured. The success...
of the line between Droxford and Farringdon Halt, leaving a short 3+1⁄2-mile (5.6 km) stub between Alton and Farringdon and a longer 9+3⁄4-mile (15.7 km)...
evening every week was set apart for a singing class, another for musical drill, another for games, or sewing or cooking. Having heard of Cecil Sharp's...
on 15 April 1863, with its HQ and five (later six) batteries at 5 FarringdonRoad. The titles '1st London' and 'City of London' were used interchangeably...
in Hampshire and Surrey, at Farnham (3 companies), Alton, Chawton and Farringdon (3), and Alresford (2). By November there were also detachments at Arundel...
was appointed Governor of Gibraltar. A disciplinarian, he forced constant drills and training, and was rigid about uniforms and was even concerned with beards...
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