The Gretna Girls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. Women came from all over the United Kingdom to work at the factory, but many were drawn from the surrounding areas of Scotland and Northern England.[1]
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TheGretnaGirls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. Women came from all over the United Kingdom...
Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, on the Scottish side of the border between Scotland and England...
industry meant a dramatic increase in the local population as people migrated to the area to work. TheGretnaGirls was a collective nickname given to women...
TheGretnaGirls was a collective nickname given to women munition workers at HM Factory Gretna in World War One. By June 1917, roughly 80% of the weaponry...
"'Little House on the Prairie' star Katherine MacGregor dies at 93". TODAY.com. Retrieved November 15, 2018. "Large Crowd At Gretna Playhouse As Season...
given the nickname of TheGretnaGirls. Many proudly wore the triangular On War Work badge on their uniforms outside work which is now part of the Devils...
26, 2012 a novel in three parts with Connie Brockway and Eloisa James) "Gretna Greene" in Scottish Brides (June 1, 1999 an anthology with Christina Dodd...
California – a 4-bedroom, Tudor-style house with 3,400 square feet on Gretna Green Way where she lived for 2 years. Simpson filed for divorce on February...
million out of the 23.8 million women in Britain were working. Thousands worked in munitions factories (see Canary Girl, GretnaGirls), offices, and large...
eloping to Scotland, most famously to marry at border towns such as Gretna Green. The legal minimum age to enter into a marriage in Scotland is sixteen...
in front of young girls in Lubbock, Pasadena, Plainview, Bacliff, Houston and Gretna, Louisiana, but was either never charged or the cases were dropped...
The Quintinshill rail disaster was a multi-train rail crash which occurred on 22 May 1915 outside the Quintinshill signal box near Gretna Green in Dumfriesshire...
pregnancy prevented being cast in the production. On 14 February 1994, she married hairdresser Lea Carter, in Gretna Green. By 1996 she had moved from...
The Elite Clubs National League (ECNL) is a national youth soccer developmental league in the United States. It was founded in 2009 as a girls' league...
Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2020. "Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke star in benefit for Gretna Productions"...
Selection of the Rhymes. Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing. Plastic Club; Violet Oakley; Jessie Willcox Smith, Elizabeth Shippen Green (1902). The Plastic...
School was an all girl Catholic high school in Gretna, Louisiana. The school was located on the West Bank of Jefferson Parish. Located in the Roman Catholic...
Factory Gretna where he worked as a shift chemist. Whilst at Gretna he was elected as an Associate of the Institute of Chemistry in 1918. Following the end...
instagram.com. "Surprise! Joel and I got married at Gretna Green and it was the most magical day, just the two of us. 🥹 . . . Link in bio but full story to...
19, 2010. "March to Gretna". Archived from the original on November 25, 2005. Retrieved November 8, 2005. ""The Bridge to Gretna" story from CBS News...
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