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Military Force, December 1820


RichardB

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Military Force of Great Britain at the time of the Accession of George the IVth.

 

15th Light Dragoon, Duke of Cumberland's, 273 horses and 439 men including Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers and Private Men. Stationed at Sheffield, December 1820.

Horse Barracks anyone ?

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A long time ago I was told that the rather ornate gatehouse on Green lane opposite the end of Dun street was the gatehouse of the cavalry barracks. Currently it is behind a lot of barriers as the engineering works behind it is being demolished.

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The Green Lane works was built for Hoole and Company, they were producing stove grates and fenders from 1795 and due to their successful business the elaborate entrance was added in 1860 during the rebuilding of the works. The horse barracks/stables were more than likely at Hillsborough Barracks.

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It was whilst doing a wiring job at an upholstery company located there that I asked about the ornate gatehouse and was told that it was formerly the gate to the cavalry barracks, and that only infantry at Hillsborough Barracks. It looks like that was only a legend not a fact.

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Hillsborough Barracks were not built until 1849-54.

For information on the horse barracks, built in the 1790's, see parts of this thread

The entrance to the Green Lane works was ornamented to celebrate Henry Elliott Hoole's year as Mayor of Sheffield, 1859-60.

In passing here is how some people viewed HE Hoole...

Sheffield Independent 12 Nov 1859

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And of course Hoole was implicated in the Acorn Street outrage, when a bomb was thrown through a bedroom window, killing a woman, the result of Hoole bringing in strike-breakers and the subsequent unrest.

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