page_title: Royal Marine Depot, Deal
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Royal Marine Depot, Deal / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Grade II listed former barrack block, originally with stabling, canteen and offices on the ground floor and accommodation above. 'One of only four such cavalry barracks surviving from the first army barrack-building campaign in England, and part of a group with the former infantry barracks and Officers' quarters'.
context_page_description: The Royal Marine Depot, Deal was a military installation occupied by the Royal Marines and located in South Deal, Kent, on the road to Walmer. The Depot was first established in Deal in 1861, occupying part of the Royal Naval Hospital. In 1868 the Depot expanded and took over the nearby 18th-century Army barracks.
  From 1930, Deal served as the headquarters of the Royal Naval School of Music. Renamed the Royal Marines School of Music after the Second World War, it expanded to provide musical training for both junior and senior recruits for all 36 Royal Marines bands.
  In 1977 the training Depot closed; the site then became the headquarters of the newly re-formed 41 Commando and was renamed Royal Marines, Deal. In 1988 parts of the site were demolished and sold for housing, leaving only the Royal Marines School of Music, which remained at Deal until 1996 whereupon it relocated to HMNB Portsmouth.
context_section_description: What later became the Royal Marine Depot began as a complex of Army barracks: Cavalry  Barracks, South Infantry Barracks and North Infantry Barracks (which began as an Army hospital), together with a separate Royal Naval Hospital. All had been established in the wake of the French Revolution, alongside what was Britain's nearest Naval station to the coast of France. In the early 1800s both hospitals were, in part, converted to provide additional barracks. The whole site was given over to the Royal Marines in the 1860s.
caption: The earliest building on site: the original Cavalry Barracks of 1793.
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