| Description | Includes the following correspondence and papers, which appear to have been compiled by Major Arthur Senior and and then later Major J. G. E. Rideal relating to Barnsley Drill Hall:
Nominal role of persons enrolled and now serving the 37th West Riding Yorkshire Rifles (1 November 1876). Includes rank, name, date of certificate of proficiency and where the certificate of proficiency was obtained. [Poor condition]
Two copies of a plan, showing the exterior view, interior view, ground floor layout and first floor layout of the proposed drill hall for the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment, drawn by R. E. Griffiths, Barnsley (1893)
Receipt for professional charges surrounding the conveyance of the site of the Drill Hall sent to Major Bamfourth and Major Senior (February 1895)
Copy of letter written by Major A. Senior to Colonel W. H. Wright of the Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, relating the funds required to finish building Barnsley Drill Hall (26 September 1896)
Letter to the Wakefield and Barnsley Banking Company, written by Lieutenant Colonel W. T. Bamfourth, regarding the loan to purchase the site for Barnsley Drill Hall (19 November 1896)
Copy of the Yorkshire Post (12 March 1898) [Poor condition]
Letter sent from Midland Railway to Major Senior, regarding land at Ardsley (26 October 1898)
Memorandum of agreement between Midland Railway and Major A. Senior (24 June 1899)
Agreement, and printed leaflet, relating to the supply of water to the Drill Hall by from Cudworth Urban District Council [1905]
Correspondence sent to and from Colonel A. Senior, relating to the laying of water pipes by Cudworth Urban District Council (December 1905-January 1906)
Photocopy of 'The Territorial Year Book' (1909)
Copies of letters, compiled by Major A. Senior, regarding the permission to shoot at Cudworth Rifle Range (15-17 December 1909)
Accounts, detailing the income and expenditure of the Cudworth Rifle Range (28 January 1910)
Letter, and provisional valuation report, sent from the Commissioners of the Inland Revenue to Colonel W. T. Bamfourth, regarding Barnsley Drill Hall (30 January 1915)
Blank form for authorising another to draw on an account held by Barclays Bank (January 1924)
Letter, and two related receipts, sent from J. E. Knight, Architect and Surveyor to Major Rideal, regarding the York and Lancaster Regiment War Memorial (30 September 1925)
Typescript document titled 'Daily Orders Part 2, issued by 5th Battalion the York and Lancaster Regiment, Rotherham'. Includes a list of men attending annual camp from 25 July to 8 August 1926 (13 August 1926)
Letter of thanks sent from Colonel S. Rhodes, Commanding Officer of the 5th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment (10 February 1927)
Letter, and related agenda for a committee meeting, sent to Lieutenant Colonel H. Oxley (28 February 1935)
Two letters sent to the Trustees of Barnsley Drill Hall from the Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the West Riding, regarding alterations to the Drill Hall (2-5 February 1937)
Correspondence between Major J. G. E. Rideal and Ware, Holtby and Procter Solicitors, regarding the lease of Barnsley Drill Hall to the Territorial Army and Air Force Association of the West Riding (April 1937)
Copy of a letter from the Secretary of Yorkshire and Humberside Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association, regarding the possibility of purchasing the freehold of Barnsley Drill Hall (25 October 1979)
Two bank statements from Barclays Bank, addressed to the Trustees of Barnsley Drill Hall (1979-1980)
Receipt from Barclays Bank (12 March 1980)
Letter sent to Cadet I. G. Kelly of D(Hallamshire) Company, 3rd Battalion of the York and Lancaster Regiment from Major J. T. H. Cooper of the Regimental Headquarters of the York and Lancaster Regiment, regarding the history of Barnsley Drill Hall (11 January 1984)
Handwritten account of the history of Barnsley Drill Hall (n.d.)
Handwritten account, and notes on the history of Barnsley Drill Hall (n.d.)
Flyer advertising the D(Hallamshire) Company Third Battalion, The Yorkshire Volunteers (n.d.) |