Gibraltar Barracks, Minley

Gibraltar Barracks
Minley
Gibraltar Barracks
Gibraltar Barracks
Location within Hampshire
Coordinates 51°19′05″N 0°49′10″W / 51.31799°N 0.81946°W / 51.31799; -0.81946Coordinates: 51°19′05″N 0°49′10″W / 51.31799°N 0.81946°W / 51.31799; -0.81946
Type Barracks
Site information
Owner Ministry of Defence
Operator  British Army
Site history
Built 1971
In use 1971-Present
Garrison information
Occupants 8th Engineer Brigade

Gibraltar Barracks is a military installation at Minley in Hampshire.

History

The barracks were established in the early 1970s on the opposite side of the A327 Minley Road to Minley Manor and initially accommodated an engineer brigade which relocated from Aldershot and various engineer recruit training units which transferred from Southwood Camp. The Royal Engineers also occupied the manor itself and used it initially as their brigade headquarters and then, from 1990, as their officers' mess. In October 1976 the Queen visited the new barracks and officially declared them open.[1]

Between 2008 and 2013, as part of the RSME-PPP project, the Holdfast consortium redeveloped the barracks and built a new officers' mess on the site so allowing the manor to be sold.[2] 8th Engineer Brigade moved to Gibraltar Barracks in 2014.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Visit of Her Majesty the Queen to the Corps of Royal Engineers 29 October 1976". Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  2. ↑ "Historic Minley Manor sold to international investor". Insider Media. 18 November 2014. Retrieved 31 March 2018.
  3. ↑ "Aldershot receives £100m as part of Germany troop withdrawal". BBC. 6 March 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. ↑ "Army 2010 Report" (PDF). Ministry of Defence. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
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