HM Explosives Factory, Gretna
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Gretna, Dumfries & Galloway, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
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Chemical production
Explosives & fuses production
Notes:
Built from 1915 and opened 1916 as a cordite factory. Developed into a huge complex of four production sites employing c17,000 in 1917. Closed 1918
Publications:
- Gretna Girls. The WW1 munitions women who made the Devil’s Porridge by Lawson, Tracey
- Connie's War. A young girl's life in the munitions factory at Gretna in the Great War of 1914-18 told in letters home to her family with additions by her daughter Ann Kerry by Richardson, Constance
- Gretna's Secret War. The great munitions factory at Dornock, Eastriggs, Gretna and Longtown and an account of the Quintinshill railway disaster by Routledge, Gordon L
- H M Factory, Gretna. Description of plant and process by Unknown
- Timbertown Girls. Gretna female munitions workers in World War 1 by Brader, C
Groups:
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Gretna, Dumfries & Galloway, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, Scotland
Sectors:
- Chemical production Explosives & fuses production
Notes:
Built from 1915 and opened 1916 as a cordite factory. Developed into a huge complex of four production sites employing c17,000 in 1917. Closed 1918Publications:
- Gretna Girls. The WW1 munitions women who made the Devil’s Porridge by Lawson, Tracey
- Connie's War. A young girl's life in the munitions factory at Gretna in the Great War of 1914-18 told in letters home to her family with additions by her daughter Ann Kerry by Richardson, Constance
- Gretna's Secret War. The great munitions factory at Dornock, Eastriggs, Gretna and Longtown and an account of the Quintinshill railway disaster by Routledge, Gordon L
- H M Factory, Gretna. Description of plant and process by Unknown
- Timbertown Girls. Gretna female munitions workers in World War 1 by Brader, C