3-021-449 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Camp at Aldershott: soldiers' reading-room, 1868. 'The soldiers'...reading-room, in the permanent barracks, [is] worthy of remark. [It is] large and cheerful...[and] is supplied with the daily newspapers and many periodicals, besides instructive and entertaining books. These rooms, of which there are many of a similar kind in the camp, are highly appreciated by the soldiers'. From "Illustrated London News", 1868.