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H.M. Factory, Gretna was Britain's largest cordite factory during the First World War. The government-owned facility was adjacent to the Solway Firth , near Gretna, Dumfries and Galloway . It was built by the Ministry of Munitions in response to the Shell Crisis of 1915 .
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]
Gretna means "(place at the) gravelly hill", from Old English greot "grit" (in the dative form greoten (which is where the -n comes from) and hoh "hill-spur".. The Lochmaben Stone is a megalith standing in a field, nearly 1 mile (1.6 km) west of the Sark mouth on the Solway Firth, three hundred yards or so above high water mark on the farm of Old Graitney.
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 .
The Army was to be supplied with Cordite from the HM Factory, Gretna, at Gretna, Scotland, another remote location. Holton Heath was chosen in 1914 because of its remote location, away from centres of population, and its good transportation links, on a backwater of Poole Harbour , adjacent to the London and South Western Railway , and the A351 ...
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.
Extensive WW II armaments depot line using parts of the site of the former HM Factory, Gretna. A sub-depot of CAD Longtown. Priddy's Hard [8] [9] about 1850 about 1960 18 in (457 mm) and also later 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Gosport, England: Ammunition transport railway, within the Royal Naval Armaments Depot, between store houses and piers. Eight ...
The Devil's Porridge Museum began The Miracle Workers Project in January 2021. Generously funded by The Dumfries and Galloway Costal Communities Benefit Fund, this project aims to find out more about the people who worked at H. M. Factory Gretna during World War One. 30,000 people worked at the factory during the war, but no extant list of all employees exists and the Museum is reliant on ...