No question of the quality of this absorbing, though downbeat military pic set in a British barracks in Germany in the mid-1950s. No question of the quality of this absorbing, though downbeat ...

In a neat lesson in colonial history, the barracks were named after Queen Victoria in 1849 and rapidly re-named 'Collins Barracks' after Irish independence.

But the building was short-lived. In 1781, Charles Cornwallis, a general in the British army, and his troops are said to have set fire to the barracks as they traveled east to the Battle of Yorktown.

The Napier Barracks site has previously been described as run-down and filthy The British Red Cross has called for ex-military asylum sites such as Napier Barracks to close immediately.