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VINTAGE RALLY SUNDAY 18TH AUGUST 2013

Are you looking for exciting events at the weekend? Then look no further!!!

Interested in any of our events, then please phone the exhibition on 01461 700021.

Devil's Porridge Exhibition Vintage Car Rally.

Please join us to celebrate our fifth year Vintage Car Rally during August 2013 at this fabulous venue in the village of Eastriggs.
The rally will be held in the
grounds adjacent to the
Devil’s Porridge Exhibition.

Please visit the new Gretna & Springfield Heritage Trails Website!

Click on this link for an exciting new experience.

What is the Devil's Porridge©'

When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, visited H. M. Factory, Gretna during 1916, it had already started to produce Cordite, a propellant used in ammunition that was fired by the British Armed Forces. When Doyle visited the new National Factory at Gretna, he described the highly explosive paste which was mixed by women who worked in the factory, as the ‘Devil's Porridge©.’
An appropriate name for the highly explosive mixture of nitro-glycerine and nitro-cotton that propelled munitions from the weapons used by the armed forces.
The dried paste, as an end product looked very similar to ‘uncooked spaghetti.’