Important Announcements
Future of the Lancashire Infantry collection
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​The closure of Fulwood Barracks, together with the withdrawal of funding for regimental museums, has been announced by the Ministry of Defence. By 2030 the Lancashire Infantry Collection will require new partners and a new home.
The Lancashire Infantry Collection comprises the regimental records of five Regiments of Central Lancashire - the Queen’s Lancashire, Lancashire (PWV), East Lancashire, South Lancashire, and Loyal North Lancashire Regiments - plus a total of 120 other independent units with Lancashire links, which are antecedents of today’s Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment. The Trustees are determined that this important, unique, and irreplaceable historical resource, comprising in total some 64,000 individual items, is preserved for the benefit of both present and future generations of the Lancashire community.
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The Trustees are pleased to record that the new permanent home of the Regimental rchive—comprising written, printed, visual, and digital records—will be the Lancashire County Archives, Bow Lane, Preston. They are firmly of the view, and take considerable satisfaction in the fact, that there is no more appropriate, suitable, or secure repository, one which will not only provide the highest standards of professional conservation and display, but will also, importantly, ensure greatly enhanced public access.
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The transfer of the records has already commenced and it is anticipated that this process will be completed in 2027.
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Planning for the future of the Collection’s physical artefacts is also progressing. Discussions are being held with a range of local authorities, community bodies, businesses, organisations and groups. It is the hope, and intention, of the Trustees that arrangements can be made for the artefacts to be preserved and presented on easily accessible public display.
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The Trustees are deeply grateful for the great wave of support which the Museum has received since the closure of Fulwood Barracks was announced, and remain committed to securing a new and worthy home for this fundamental part of the Lancashire Story.
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February 2026
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Your Museum Needs Your Help!
Unless we can secure additional funding, the survival of the Lancashire Infantry Museum is in doubt.
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The Museum costs a great deal of money to run.
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Only our traditional home in historic Fulwood Barracks is provided for us, beyond which we receive very limited official support.
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We receive no official funding whatsoever for the preservation, maintenance, development and display of the collection and archives.
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All work on collating the largest regimental archive in the United Kingdom, and dealing with the many hundreds of research requests which we receive, is carried out by our highly-dedicated team of volunteers, who donate many hours of their time, and without whom the Museum could not operate.
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PLEASE HELP US TO PRESERVE THE MEMORY, AND TO CONTINUE TELLING THE STORY, OF LANCASHIRE’S SOLDIERS
PLEASE CONSIDER MAKING A DONATION:
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