The building was designed as a mission hall for
All Hallows' Church, Ordsall and was completed around 1860. After an extension to St Alban's Church, Ordsall was completed in 1913, the
parish had sufficient capacity and regarded the hall as surplus to requirements. The regiment was mobilised at the drill hall in August 1914 before being deployed to
Gallipoli. After a modern
Territorial Army Centre was established in Hallcroft Road, the hall was decommissioned and was used as a
Methodist Sunday School Centre and then as a storage facility. ==References==