Always Ready: The Drill Halls of Britain’s Volunteer Forces :: Mike Osborne soon to be presented for sale on the excellent BookLovers of Bath web site!
Leigh-on-Sea: Partizan Press, 2006, Hardback in dust wrapper.
Includes: Floor plans; Black & white photographs; Colour photographs; List of abbreviations; References; 2-column text; Appendices (7);
From the cover: This book explores the form, function, locations & current status of the hundreds of drill halls across Britain, which have accommodated volunteer forces from Victorian times to the present day, and it includes a comprehensive gazetteer.
This hook is designed to provide the general reader with a guide to a neglected, and often over-looked class of building, once part of every town, and urban neighbourhoo…
Introduction by: Jeremy Lake
Near Fine in Near Fine Dustwrapper. Dust wrapper now protected in a removable mylar sleeve.
Black boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. 336 pages. Bibliography. 8½” x 10″.
Of course, if you don’t like this one, may I captivate you with this splendid selection from my Military Army catalogue?
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