HC Deb 01 August 1862 vol 168 c1093
GENERAL LINDSAY

rose to ask the Secretary of State for War to postpone until next Session his decision respecting the conversion of the late Officers' Clubhouse at Aldershot into a Soldiers' Home. He was himself a great friend of soldiers' institutes, but he thought the building in question was not favourably placed for such a purpose, being placed close to a high road. The building had been fitted up for an officers' club, and would require great alterations to fit it for a soldiers' institute, and the high rent which had been demanded by the War Department had prevented persons from taking it for the purposes to which it was usually devoted.