The 'Devil's Porridge' Exhibition.©
The 'Devil's Porridge' Exhibition.©
Events Page.
Events Page.
Are you looking for exciting events at the weekend? Then look no further!!!
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.
Vintage Car Rally
on the
8th August 2010.
The vintage rally will be the highlight of our special event weekend. Revisit last years event by viewing the photo's that were taken on the day!!
We look forward to meeting
you at the event!!
Sheila mixing the 'Devil's Porridge!
Saturday 4th September 2010.
Our annual Toy Train Exravaganza at the Devil's Porridge Exhibition.
Open to big boy's and girl's as
well as the wee ones.
Our 2010 leaflet will be available soon.
Please watch this space
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.’
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