Chetwynd Barracks

Chetwynd Barracks
Chilwell

Chetwynd Barracks
Chetwynd Barracks
Location within Nottinghamshire
Coordinates 52°54′34″N 01°15′23″W / 52.90944°N 1.25639°WCoordinates: 52°54′34″N 01°15′23″W / 52.90944°N 1.25639°W
Type Barracks
Site information
Owner Ministry of Defence
Operator  British Army
Site history
Built 1919
Built for War Office
In use 1919-Present
Garrison information
Occupants 49 (East) Brigade

Chetwynd Barracks is a military installation at Chilwell in Nottinghamshire.

History

The Chilwell depot and barracks were built for the Royal Army Ordnance Corps shortly after the First World War on the former site of the National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell which had been completely devastated by an exposion in July 1918.[1] The site continued to be used as a central ordnance depot after the Second World War[2] and, although the central vehicle kit store closed in 1958,[3] it continued to operate as a general stores depot and a vehicle workshop.[4]

The site was renamed Chetwynd Barracks, after Viscount Chetwynd who had been Managing Director of the National Shell Filling Factory, in 1995[4] and is now the home of 49 (East) Brigade.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Chilwell Depot". Picture the past. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  2. ↑ "Army Life". BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  3. ↑ "Ordnance Depots Named". British Army units 1945 on. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell". Hansard. 5 March 1996. Retrieved 20 April 2014.
  5. ↑ "49 (East) Brigade". Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 20 April 2014.