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D.E. Marsden

The Development of Kirkcudbright in the Early 19th Century by the Emergence of Voluntarism

Recent, Recent (Social)

TDGNHAS Series III, 81 (2007), 109(2.95 MB)

Abstract

In the 1790s Kirkcudbright was developed by an initiative inaugurated and overseen by the
Burgh Council and inspired by a touch of personal design imparted by the interaction of
the Burgh Council and the local lairds, the Dunbar family.(1) Thus there em

D. Fairbairn

The Devil's Porridge Exhibition [Lecture to the Society, 18th March, 2005]

Recent, Recent (Social), Industrial Archaeology

TDGNHAS Series III, 79 (2005), 192(4.05 MB)

Abstract

Summary of a lecture delivered to the Society on 18th March 2005.
The factory constructed in Gretna to produce cordite (the Devil’s porridge) needed for the manufacture of munitions for World War I was part of a much larger site extending from Longtown t