[4] 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.

[8] In about the year 1789 a certain George Leith Esq purchased the Walmer Court Estate (his family having made money from, among other things, contracting to provide hospital services for the Admiralty - including in his home town of Deal).

[6] Over time, it began to be used as general barracks accommodation and a sizeable parade ground was laid out in front of the main range,[18] flanked by houses for senior officers and others.

[7] Again, the Navy' links to Deal long predate the 1790s, when the Royal Naval Hospital was established (which later formed part of the Depot).

In the course of the 17th century a Naval Yard was established, and subsequently expanded along the shoreline to the north of Deal Castle, to serve the vessels anchored off the shore.

[20] In 1652, during the Commonwealth period, the Admiralty Committee hired a house in Deal to serve as a naval hospital (run under contract and staffed from Surgeons' Hall).

[23] Separate buildings to the west included a cookhouse, the dispensary, 'rooms for insane patients' and a dead house (behind which was laid out a small cemetery).

[8] Later, additional land was purchased and two pairs of large semi-detached houses were built, for the Governor, Physician, Surgeon and Agent of the hospital.

[9] Later, a new row of buildings was built along the line of the boundary, on what is now Wilkinson Drive, providing an Armoury, recreation rooms and a Sergeants' Mess.

[29] To accommodate the expanding depot, additional two- and three-storey blocks were added to the Hospital Barracks site, alongside the old cemetery at the back.

[7] In the late 19th century an iron-frame drill shed was added to the original Cavalry Barracks, which now backed on to its own three-sided quadrangle of buildings.

[31] To help ease the overcrowding at Deal, the decision was taken that those destined for the Royal Marine Artillery division would instead be accommodated at Eastney for their initial training.

[29] In 1905, work was begun on building a new Depot Church (similar in design to those at Eastney and Chatham)[4] on a site alongside the new Drill Field; it was consecrated in January 1907 and dedicated to St Michael and All Angels.

[32] In 1942, volunteers for the first Royal Marine Commando unit were assembled at Deal, where they undertook initial training and testing.

[4] During the 1950s most of the old North Barracks buildings were demolished: the row of officers' houses on the south-west side of the parade ground were replaced in 1951 with a new Dining Hall and Naafi,[34] and on the other side of the parade ground a striking new concrete shell-roofed Drill Hall was opened in September of that year (providing an interior space measuring 225 ft (69 m) long by 90 ft 9 in (27.66 m) wide, with no supporting columns).

[33] Most of the barracks accommodation was then filled by 41 Commando; but after it was disbanded in 1981 the Royal Marines School of Music was left in sole occupancy.

[36] The depot was largely withdrawn from service in 1991 although the Royal Marines School of Music remained on site in the East barracks until 1996, when it relocated to HMNB Portsmouth.

[42] Infirmary Barracks closed in 1988 and the buildings were demolished to make way for a private housing development now known as "Marine Mews".