In one of our visits at the Lincoln Drill Hall, we had the opportunity to participate in a tour hosted by Simon Hollingworth, the Creative Director of the Arts Venue. While listening about the history of the building, it was hard to keep your mind from slipping away, trying to imagine how it used to look like in the past when people were using it as a volunteer drill hall. However, military and police training was not the building’s only usage as, throughout the years, it hosted differrent kinds of events and dances and was even used as a temporary hospital for the Typhoid victims.
Even though the Drill Hall has been refurbished, it still has most of its old glory and beauty! The cafe is quite modern and is the home of two plaques which are dedicated to the 4th Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment.
All the other rooms combine new and old elements which make them visually interesting!
The Room Upstairs
The Auditorium
The Cosker Room
Yet, the rooms that really amazed were the two Cellars!! Both of them looked old and forgotten and they were full of boxes and other things. But because they were never re-decorated, they were the closest of what the Lincoln Drill Hall used to look like. In one of the Cellars they were also the Morris Tubes, which were used for gun practice by the soldiers, and were pretty amazing to see!
