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Due to the Corona Covid 19 virus, the Lancashire Infantry Museum is closed until further notice.
RESEARCH:
During Lockdown, our staff are still offering a family history research service from home. For details just e-mail:
(Please note that there is a £30 fee for this service)
CHRISTMAS 1914
This year has been bad, perhaps the worst that our generation has had to face. but it is as nothing compared to those suffered by our forefathers. Our Acting Curator Thomas Mallinson has scanned our archives for a look at how Christmas was in 1914. Click on the following link to see his on-line display:
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VJ DAY 75
The East Lancashires, the South Lancashires, and the Loyals all fought in the ghastly, grinding war against the Japanese, and the 2nd Loyals and 18th Recce (formerly 5th Loyals) suffered terribly as Prisoners Of War after being captured at Singapore. See our on-line tribute to them and the men of the 14th Army – the ‘Forgotten Army’ – at:
DUNKIRK 80
Why not visit our first-ever on-line ‘virtual exhibition’? The Lancashire Infantry Museum had hoped to mount a special exhibition to mark the 80th anniversary of the role of our Regiments at Dunkirk, produced in association with the University of Central Lancashire. Instead, with the generous assistance of the University, we made it into our very first on-line display. Please take a look by clicking on the link below:
Good Luck, take care, and please stay safe, everybody.
Welcome to the website of the Lancashire Infantry Museum, the largest Regimental archive and the premier centre for military historical research in the North of England.
The Museum is housed in the heart of Lancashire, in the traditional home of the old county infantry regiments in Fulwood Barracks, Preston.
We preserve for posterity the achievements, records and artefacts of those historic infantry regiments of Central Lancashire which now form part of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment, created in 2006 by the amalgamation of The Kings Own Royal Border, Kings and Queen’s Lancashire Regiments.
In all we cherish the heritage of 120 separate units, including the 59 battalions formed by our antecedent Lancashire regiments during the First World War, and all associated Militia, Rifle Volunteers, Territorials, Home Guard and Cadet units.
The Antecedent Regiments
FUTURE OF THE LANCASHIRE INFANTRY MUSEUM
On 7 November 2016 the Ministry of Defence announced the closure and disposal of Fulwood Barracks by 2022.
**( Closure delayed until 2027 announced in March 2019 )**
This does NOT mean that Lancashire Infantry Museum, which with its predecessors has been located in the Barracks for the past 90 years, will also close. The Museum Trustees fully intend that the Museum will continue in existence.
We are an independent charitable organisation occupying premises within the Barracks on a lease from the Ministry of Defence. We very much hope that we may continue to be located at the Fulwood Barracks site in whatever future form that may take. However, if this proves not to be possible, then the Ministry of Defence is legally committed to re-locating us in suitable and appropriate accommodation elsewhere, and we have received ministerial confirmation that this obligation will be honoured.
Please be assured that, whatever the future of Fulwood Barracks:
• The Museum is not threatened with closure either now or in the foreseeable future.
• The Trustees will continue to hold and display donated material to at least the present standards of access and security.
• We continue to welcome new donations and financial support .
We are touched and grateful for the great wave of support which the Museum has received since the announcement was made. We are most appreciative, and hope for to your continuing support during the difficult years which lie ahead.
