The Devil’s Porridge

This exhibition tells the secret story of the greatest munitions factory on Earth…
In 1915, Britain was losing the 1st World War through lack of ammunition and 30,000 men and women from all over the world came to work in a massive war factory on the Solway. The highly explosive mixture of nitro-glycerine and nitro-cotton was hand mixed into cordite and packed into the shells and bullets. It was given the name “devil’s porridge” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when he visited the factory in 1916. The Devil’s Porridge exhibition is situated in Eastriggs on the A75 between Annan and Gretna.

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The photo below shows women working at The Devil’s Porridge during WWI.

(Image from an uncited Internet source).