9:30 am we arrived Clive`s home
11:15 am we start in direction of Scotland
6 pm we arrived Gretna Green and the Graham Arms Guest House in Eastriggs to have a overnight and we had dinner in the Guest House
EASTRIGGS
Today Powfoot is a quiet village on the Solway coast. But in the late 19th and early 20th centuries plans were laid to make it a grand holiday resort, with hotels, formal gardens, woodland walks, a promenade, a pier, golf courses and bowling greens. The whole scheme eventually collapsed, though some of the attractions were actually built. Now the village is famous for its red brick housing and terraces, which look incongruous on shores of the Solway, but would not look out of place in Lancashire.
A huge government works manufacturing explosives and gunpowder was established in the area during the First World War. The Devil's Porridge Exhibition, in St John's Church on Dunedin Road, traces the lives of the 30,000 workers who manufactured what Sie Arthur Conan Doyle called "The Devil's Porridge". Within the eine miles between Dornock in Scotland and Longtown in England was the largest munitions factory in the world at the time. The exhibition also recalls the Quintinshill railway disaster.
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Graham Arms Guest House
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