"It hosted a range of popular events in the 1880s, including Tayleur’s Great American Circus (which included the performance of ‘Dr Carl the Demon Marksman’ – the finest shot in the world), Newport Choral Society’s performance of Handel’s Messiah, with two hundred voices and a band of fifty instruments and in 1893 General Booth addressed the massed ranks of the Salvation Army there to rapturous applause."
Another member of the WGUIN group, Douglas Pritchard, said: "I used to go to the Drill Hall dance every Saturday night in 1946 until it closed many years later."
Bob Jones posted another picture of the building, taking in 1916.