1. Festival Programme
Saturday 29th
- DAYTIME
Time Traveller
Coach Tours
Various Times
Mend and
Make Do 11am - 3pm
Heritage Walks
11.30am & 2pm
Back To Our Past
and Festival Family
Art Workshops
11am - 4pm
WW1 Tearoom
11am - 3pm
Army Assault
Course
11am - 3pm
Vintage Rally
11am - 1pm
Saturday 29th
- MORNING
FILM FESTIVAL Children’s Matinee
Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin - 10:30am
Friday 28th
- AFTERNOON
LUNCHTIME TALK
Gallipoli: In their own words
1.30pm - 2pm
Friday 28th
- EVENING
Festival Concert
7.30pm - 9.30pm
Saturday 29th
- AFTERNOON
Great War Fashion
2pm - 3.30pm
FILM FESTIVAL
The Phantom of the Opera
3pm
Saturday 29th
- EVENING
Festival Ceilidh 6.30pm - Midnight
Sunday 30th
- DAYTIME
Sunday 30th
- EVENING
Monday 31th
- DAYTIME
Time Traveller
Coach Tours
Various Times
WW1 Tearoom
11am - 3pm
Army
Assault Course
11pm - 4pm
An evening with Fiona Harrison - 7pm
Kilted Gordon Highlanders - 11am - 4pm
Monday 31th
- AFTERNOON
Gretna Events
To help plan and enjoy your time at the festival...
...use the colours codes below to identify the location.
Eastriggs Events
Living History Display
11am - 4pm
Cooking Challenge
2pm - 4pm
Sunday 30th
- AFTERNOON
Living
History Display
Noon - 4pm
FILM FESTIVAL
The General with
Buster Keaton - 3pm
Teatime in
Wartime
3pm - 5pm
A game for girls?Exhibition - AnnanFriday and Saturday11am - 4pm
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We are putting on a series of events to lift
the spirits, including old style music hall and
variety, a classic bus offering tours of the
famous Munitions Factory, a stylised WW1
tearoom, great live music, heritage walks,
educational workshops and much much more.
Whether you are interested in WW1 and the
amazing social history of Eastriggs and Gretna
and the world famous Munitions Factory or
are just looking to be entertained;
If you want to Pack Up Your Troubles in
August, you know where to come. Do join us!!
The Gretna, Springfield and Eastriggs Commemorations Project.
Another great festival supported by Dumfries and Galloway
Council’s Major Festivals and Events Strategy 2014-2017.
Come and join the good folks of Gretna and
Eastriggs as we celebrate our 100th
birthday.
For festival tickets and information contact
Midsteeple Box Office
on 01387 253383 or visit our website

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SOCIAL CLUB
Singapore Road,
Eastriggs
DG12 6QN
THE DEVIL’S
PORRIDGE
Annan Road
DG12 6TF
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NORTH ROAD
THE RIDGE
MELBOURNEAVE
BAXTER HALL
Annan Road,
Eastriggs DG12 6PZ
ST JOHN’S
CHURCH
Dunedin Road
Eastriggs, Annan
DG12 6QE
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Wartime Ration
Cooking Challenge
with celebrity chef John Crouch
Monday 31st
August, 2pm - 4pm
Celebrity chef and author John Crouch is put to the challenge
of cooking-up a delicious meal using a typical wartime ration.
Come along for an entertaining afternoon of culinary fun.
Teatime in Wartime
with celebrity chef John Crouch
Sunday 30th
August, 3pm - 5pm
Look back to WW1 to create mouth-watering teatime dishes.
Delve into the history and development of each dish with
John and gain a better understanding and appreciation of
food from a century ago.
There will be plenty of delicious food to sample!
Mend & Make Do
Saturday 29th
August, 11am - 3pm
Inspired by wartime ‘Mend and Make Do’ ethos, drop into the
Devil’s Porridge Museum to chat with crafter Sue Simmons and
help us to create a festival rag-rug. Learn the techniques for
recycling worn out clothes into eye-catching rugs that furnished
a typical wartime home. Admission to museum required.
Lunchtime Talk
Gallipoli: In their own words
Friday 28th
August, 1.30pm - 2pm
Join Jules Wooding as she brings to life the first-hand accounts of
soldiers who fought at Gallipoli in 1915. Using rare photos and
letters from the collection of Cumbria’s Museum of Military Life,
this talk will offer a unique insight into life during one of World
War One’s most hard-fought campaigns.
Spiritof
WW1Events
The Devil’s Porridge Museum
All the following events are FREE
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BackToOurPast&
Festival Family
Art Workshops
Baxter Memorial Hall, Annan Road, Eastriggs DG12 6PZ
Saturday 29th
August, 11am - 4pm
Come along and be transported back in time to
the days of cream teas, jumble sales and sing-alongs.
Enjoy homemade refreshments then rummage the clothes rails before
sitting down to make some old-school peg dolls and paper planes.
Stay on for vintage singer Fiona Harrison, who will sing a selection
of wartime classics from 3pm.
Fantastic Family Trees: 10am - 12noon
Picture Yourself: 1pm - 3pm
Artist and illustrator Ruthie Redden leads two creative workshops for
all ages. Explore your roots and discover more about your heritage by
creating a decorative family tree illustration to take away.
Picture Yourself invites children to imagine themselves a century ago
and create a paper figure as part of a commemorative
mural. The more children we have bigger
the completed mural will be!
All materials provided.
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TimeTraveller
Toursby Classic Bus
Travel back in time and discover
the Eastriggs of WW1 on
our classic bus tours.
Saturday 29th
& Sunday 30th
10am, 11am, 12pm, 2pm
Start from The Devil’s Porridge Museum
Devil’s Porridge, Annan Road, Eastriggs DG12 6TF
Starting out from the Devil’s Porridge Museum, you’ll explore the village
before having exclusive access to the old HM Factory Gretna site to see
what remains of the factory complex today.
Booking advisable, contact the Devil’s Porridge
on 01461 700021 to secure your place.
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Take this rare
opportunity
to go beyond the security
fence of the historic Munitions
Factory and experience the
Eastriggs of yesteryear.
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CHURCH
Annan Road,
Gretna,
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GRETNA
SOCIAL CLUB &
RAYDALE PARK
Dominion Road,
Gretna DG16 5AP
An evening with
Fiona Harrison
Music & Song
from the early 1900’s
Sunday 30th
August, 7pm
All Saints Church, Gretna DG16 5DH
An evening of music from the early 1900s,
accompanied with light refreshments.
Vintage RallyRaydale Park Football Ground, Gretna DG16 5AP
Saturday 29th
August
Vehicles to arrive: 9am - 10.30am
Show time: 11am - 2pm
Judging from: Noon - 1pm
There will be a rally drive from the site at Gretna to
Eastriggs and back for all vehicles wishing to take part,
leaving Raydale at 2.15pm.
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What ordinary women
wore in extraordinary times.
Saturday 29th
August, 2pm - 3.30pm
Richard Greenhow Centre, Gretna DG16 5AQ
Join author and costume historian Lucy Adlington
for this inspiring insight into the lives
and aspirations of women in the
First World War, as revealed
through their clothes. With
fascinating first-hand stories
and a beautiful display of
original workwear and
fashions, as featured in
Lucy’s books ‘Great War
Fashion – Tales from
the History Wardrobe’
and ‘Fashion: Women
in World War One’.
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Come and see ourDrill Display12:45 and 2:45
Guided Heritage Walks
Saturday 29th
August, 11.30am & 2pm
Richard Greenhow Centre, Gretna DG16 5AQ
Take a gentle walk round the Gretna Garden city heritage
trail and learn some history from the information boards
explaining the life and times of HM Factory Gretna.
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Highlanders1914-18
Demonstrating their uniform,
equipment, weapons
and life of the soldiers.
Monday 31st
August, 11am - 4pm
Richard Greenhow Centre,
Gretna DG16 5AQ
During WW1 Scottish
regiments were at the
forefront of some of the
conflict’s fiercest fighting,
and it was the kilted Gordon
Highlanders whose bravery
– and kilts! – struck terror in
the hearts of the Germans.
Photos by Scotland’s Festival of History.
WW1 Tearoom
During the festival visit our World War One
themed tearoom serving teas and snacks.
Saturday & Sunday, 11am - 3pm
Richard Greenhow Centre, Gretna DG16 5AQ
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Army Assault Course
Saturday & Sunday 11am - 4pm
Put your body to the test against our specially
designed army assault course with high walls,
balance beams, tunnels and much much more.
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LivingHistory
Display
Haydn Easy & Gillian Jones
illustrating Life on the
Home Front during WW1
Sunday 30th
August, Noon - 4pm
Monday 31st
11am - 4pm
Richard Greenhow Centre, Gretna DG16 5AQ
Depicting a typical small house with many period
details, information and artefacts showing how families
coped whilst the men were away fighting at the Front.
ASC Workshop/Garage and Motortricycle
Concentrating on the important work of the Army Service Corps.
Their many duties included keeping the troops supplied with food
and ammunition, transporting soldiers and equipment in all fields
of battle. The lightweight Motortricycle would have been a handy
vehicle to call upon for quick transport.
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4. Agameforgirls?
An exhibition about Scottish
women’s football from World
War One to the present day.
Friday 28th
August – Saturday 31st
October
Open 11am – 4pm
Annan Museum, Bank Street, Annan, DG12 6AA
Women’s Association football was first played in Edinburgh in 1881.
Although further matches were played in Scotland throughout the
1880s and 90s, it was during World War One that the women’s game
was propelled into the public consciousness like never before.
This exhibition looks at the rise, fall and resurrection of Scottish
women’s football from the factory teams of World War One to its
place on the international sports stage today.
A TRIP BACK TO
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Festival
CONCERT
Friday 28th
August 7.30pm - 9.30pm.
Richard Greenhow Centre, Central Avenue, Gretna DG16 5AQ
Superb music from the Scottish Academy
of Music, Fiona Harrison, vintage singer,
and the Annan Town Band.
Enjoy music and song from 100 years
ago, take part by dressing up in the
audience but be prepared to be
‘heckled’ by our compere!! This will
be an evening’s entertainment to
remember!!
Drop in family activities
Opening Event- Thursday 27th
August 7pm - 9pm
A museum open evening to celebrate
the new “A game for girls?” exhibition.
Light refreshments served. All welcome.
Free drop in family
activities associated
with an exhibition
about Scottish women’s
football from World War
One to the present day.
Drop in family activities will include:
• Table football • Design a football strip
• Dress up as a World War One footballer
• Kicking – a football gallery trail
• Quizzes and colouring sheets.
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FestivalCeilidh
A community ceilidh and barbecue to
bring Eastriggs and Gretna together
for our 100th
birthday celebrations.
Saturday 29th
August
Barbecue: 6.30pm–7.30pm | Ceilidh: 8pm–Midnight
Eastriggs Social Club, Singapore Road, Eastriggs DG12 6QN
Get your kilt swinging to Two Left Feet
the best ceilidh band in the region.
Please book your ticket in advance,
pack up your troubles and “Smile!
Smile! Smile!”.
(Ticket price includes one serving of food;
additional items can be purchased separatel)
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Fiona
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Vintage Singer,
Entertainer and
Costume Artist!
Specialising in music
from the 1880s to
the 1960s, Fiona will sing a series of
timeless classics from the period.
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FilmFestival
The munition girls laughed with
Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton
and screamed at Phantom of the Opera.
Re-live these film thrills now and enjoy Alistair
McEwan’s amazing ad lib musical accompaniment
in three separate performances.
Children’s Matinee -
Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin
Saturday 29th
August at 10:30am. The Devil’s Porridge Museum.
The Phantom of the Opera - ALL WELCOME
Saturday 29th
August at 3pm. St John’s Episcopal Church Eastriggs.
The General with Buster Keaton - ALL WELCOME
Sunday 30th
August at 3pm. Eastriggs Social Club.
A number of festival events are taking
place at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.
No trip to the Pack Up Festival weekend
would be complete without a visit to
this superb new visitor attraction.
Discover the remarkable story of the greatest
Munitions Factory on earth and the extraordinary
lives of the Munitions Girls who worked there.
ADMISSION COSTS APPLY
01461 700021 info@devilsporridge.org.uk
www.devilsporridge.org.uk
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