World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 24 October 2013
Event ID 965800
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/965800
The drill hall is marked on both 2nd and 3rd epoch OS maps of the area. It was built in 1892 by Horatio Kelson Bromhead as a volunteer hall. It occupies a corner site with plain two-storey elevations in rusticated sandstone, with a low corner tower to a slightly squat third storey. There is a massive square hall with an original central rooflight; the roof is now penetrated by many modern Velux-type windows.
Osborne (2006) reports that in 1914 the hall was the HQ of the 5th battalion, Highland Light Infantry, and the base of "A" to "H" Companies.
The building is now the Haldane Building of Glasgow School of Art.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 24 October 2013.
