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Last week, The Devil s Porridge Museum hosted the conference with twenty-four speakers from around the world. The Devil s Porridge Museum is a war museum located on Annan Road in Eastriggs. The speakers were organised onto six different panels on themes such as: Women in Industry; Leisure during War, and Women in service. There was also a keynote speech by Professor Angela Woolacott, the author of On Her Their Lives Depend: Munition Workers in the Great War , and a musical performance by the award winning folk musician, Claire Hastings - she performed her song The Gretna Girls . Judith Hewitt, the Manager at The Devil s Porride Museum, said: It was wonderful to end the conference where it all began - with the stories of the twelve-thousand women who mixed The Devil s porridge in World War One.
Exhibition of Dumfries and Galloway s pioneering female motor engineer opens to the public
The Dorothée Pullinger exhibition is now showing at the Devil s Porridge Museum.
Dorothée Pullinger (left) was also a keen racing driver and is pictured at a race meeting. Picture courtesy of Motorsport Images. (Image: Dumfries And Galloway Standard)
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The Devil’s Porridge Museum has received more than £100,000 from Museums Galleries Scotland and Visit Scotland. The funding will support the museum to prepare for re-opening on April 26, enable it to work on new projects and add new features. “It is Covid Recovery and Resilience funding so some of it is to help ensure we can re-open and ensure that we are as safe and clean as we can be for our visitors” explained Judith Hewitt, museum manager. The museum café has also been refurbished. Chairman Richard Brodie said: Thanks to the funding we have been able to invest in our cafe and create an elegant and comfortable space for coffee drinkers and those looking for a tasty lunch. The furniture and decor has been specially chosen to reflect a Rennie Mackintosh style which was embraced by the architects who designed the garden villages of Eastriggs and Gretna and the WW1 state management pubs and coffee houses.
Eastriggs Devil s Porridge Museum receives funding boost ahead of April 26 reopening
The visitor attraction has received more than £100,000 from Museums Galleries Scotland and Visit Scotland
Staff and volunteers at The Devil s Porridge Museum.
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One of Dumfries and Galloway’s top visitor attractions has received a funding boost before it re-opens on April 26.