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In this talk Nigel Crompton will look at the huge cordite factory built in 1915-1916 on the border of England and Scotland at Gretna. H.M. Factory, Gretna was the United Kingdom's largest cordite factory in the Great War. It was built by the Government in response to the Shell Crisis of 1915 and covered 9000 acres. Without the factory, it was...
About the talk: This is a very different talk, based on the 'Miracle Workers' project run by and on behalf of The Devils Porridge Museum, Eastriggs. (Devil's porridge was the Great War nickname for cordite.) It is a study in Great War Genealogy on the Home Front. We first set the scene by examining this massive munitions factory complex in Gretn...