Re: Thanks, plus a Liverpool question


"Liz Owen" <l.owen@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Can anyone enlighten me about the St Annes bit of this? And does
anyone know why a Scottish regiment would be garrisoned in Liverpool
in 1851?

For the same reasonas any regiment is garrisoned anywhere to this day:
because the General Staff decided that is where they want it at the
time. The 'permanent' association of one regiment with one place is
not permanent. Itis just damned expensive to move a regiment and all
its facilities to some other place. But regiments move, expand,
disband, and so forth when the need for them to do so is greater than
the financial burden of doing so. There is always a furore by locals
when a barracks is built (we don't want common soldiery causing
trouble round here) and when that barracks is emptied (all the small
business - including brothels - will suffer as the customers are taken
away by unfeeling Generals who have no respect for local loyalties).

Ditto for naval establishments and, nowadays, RAF vases.

Din


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