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The Fusilier Museum was originally housed in the Wellington Barracks on Bolton Road. In 2009, the museum moved into the former Bury Arts and Crafts Centre building on Broad Street, which had closed in December 2004 after 110 years on the site. [1] The new museum was officially opened by the Duke of Kent on 25 September 2009. [2]
The Regiment amalgamated with several other regiments to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1968 and the barracks were demolished in 1969. [1] The Regimental Headquarters were retained and used as the Fusilier Regimental Museum until 2009 when the collection moved to Moss Street in Bury. [ 3 ]
The trustees of the museum joined forces with Warwickshire County Council to acquire St John's House in 1961. The Council opened their museum of the ground floor and the trustees of the regimental museum occupied the first floor. Both museums were opened by Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery on 2 August 1961. [1]
The Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial is a First World War memorial dedicated to members of the Lancashire Fusiliers killed in that conflict. Outside the Fusilier Museum in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, it was unveiled in 1922—on the seventh anniversary of the landing at Cape Helles, part of the Gallipoli Campaign in which the regiment suffered particularly heavy casualties.
Fusiliers Museum may refer to: Fusilier Museum, Bury, Greater Manchester; Fusiliers Museum (London), Tower of London; Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland, Alnwick ...
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The Fusilier Museum (Lancashire) is based in Bury, Greater Manchester [14] The Fusiliers Museum (London) is based in the Tower of London [15] The Fusiliers Museum of Northumberland is based in Alnwick Castle [16] The Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum (Gloucestershire Regiment and Royal Gloucestershire Hussars) is based at the historic docks in ...
The shelter was opened to the public in 1996 as a museum. [1] In 2014, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council announced plans to cut funding to the museum and place it under an independent trust. [9] In 2019, several staff were placed on redundancy notice, with plans announced to cut opening hours the following year. [10]