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Arthur Conan Doyle wrote about HM Factory Gretna (calling it 'Moorside', and coined the phase 'the devil's porridge' after seeing the Gretna Girls processing the dangerous mixture on the production line); [19] he was a war correspondent, describing the conditions women lived and worked in. [20]
The national munitions factory in Gretna, which was the largest industrial site in the world at the time, [3] recorded that 36% of its workers had previously been in domestic service. [1] The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One.
The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. Women came from all over the United Kingdom to work at the factory, but many were drawn from the surrounding areas of Scotland and Northern England .
HM Factory, Gretna, the largest propellant factory in the United Kingdom, which opened in 1916, was by 1917 producing 800 tons (812 tonne) of Cordite RDB per week (approximately 41,600 tons per year). [18] [23] The Royal Navy had its own factory at Holton Heath. [27]
The township of Eastriggs was created as a result of the shell and ammunition crisis of June 1915 which prompted the newly founded Ministry of Munitions to create a new cordite factory. [3] Officially designated H.M. Factory Gretna, the factory was spread over a 9-mile (14 km) site stretching from Dornock through Gretna to Longtown, Cumbria. [4]
The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. One of these workers was Maud Bruce. She arrived at H.M. Factory Gretna in late 1916 to work as a forewoman of the cotton drying house in the Dornock section. Maud was billeted at Grenville Hostel, Eastriggs. [5]
Euphemia Culbert Cunningham OBE BEM (later Baxter; 1892 – 2 August 1989) was a World War One munitions worker at HM Factory, Gretna, who was the first person from Edinburgh to be awarded a Medal of the Order of the British Empire for her bravery in rescuing injured workers, during an explosion in the cordite factory.
1550/1917, On static display at HM Factory, Gretna [4] 1571/1917, Glasgow Museum of Transport [5] 1572/1917, Carnforth, Lancashire [6] 1815/1924, Snibston Discovery Park, Coalville, Leicestershire [7] 1876/1925, Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway [8] 1944/1927, Telford Steam Railway, Shropshire [9] 1950/1928, Ribble Steam Railway, Preston ...