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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]
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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.
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 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]
Edward Hodges Baily's 1851 statue of Sir Robert Peel stands in the centre of town, [32] while Lutyens' Lancashire Fusiliers War Memorial can be found outside the Fusilier Museum. [33] George Frampton's 'cheering fusilier', a tribute to those who died in the Boer War, stands in Whitehead Garden near the town hall. [34]
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