The Devil’s Porridge Museum is currently closed for the festive season (re-opening the 8th January 2025), we have a few more things to catch you up on in this roundup! Read on to discover what’s happened in or Monthly Roundup 18th November to 15th December 2024; the last one of 2024!
Monday 18th November
We’re starting of the Roundup with Arts and Crafts club! It is always lovely to see what the young people who come along to this free club will create.
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Wednesday 20th November
The Devil’s Porridge Museum has had lots of school visits this year and we were delighted to welcome another one to the museum today. You can click here if you would like to learn more about school visits>
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Thursday 21st November
We were proud to welcome author Jeannie Rotherwell to The Devil’s Porridge Museum to present her historical fiction book, Springside. It was brilliant to have so many people join us for this free talk. Thank you to Jeannie Rotherwell and everyone who joined us for this.
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On 21st November, we also had a group visit to The Devil’s Porridge Museum. Please be aware that you need to book any food you would like for your group in advance. Click here to find out more about group visits>
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Monday 25th November
It was a month to Christmas, so we had a very festive edition of Cordite Club. They were treated to a Christmas dinner, complete with Christmas crackers! They also had the choice of a mince pie or meringue for dessert (the meringue proved most popular with the attendees!). It was brilliant to be joined by some lovely musicians who sang and played festive music for our Cordite Club too. A huge thank you to them!
We were also proud to be joined by Eastriggs and Dornock Early Years Nursery who treated everyone to some beautiful singing and even left some gifts for our Cordite Club! A huge thank you to them!
Another massive thank you to everyone who has helped make our Cordite Club possible this year and of course all the members of our Cordite Club who join us! This was the last Cordite Club of 2024 and we will look forward to seeing everyone back for this on 20th January 2025.
Below are some photos of our very festive Cordite Club!
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Our Arts and Craft club were in The Devil’s Porridge Museum again in the afternoon. It’s always brilliant to have them at the museum!
Wednesday 27th November
Fantastic to have a school visit to The Devil’s Porridge Museum today. If your wondering what happens during a school visit you can click here to learn more>
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Sunday 1st December
Did you know that on 1st December in 1916 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s newspaper article about Moorside (which is a code name for H.M. Factory Gretna) was printed in The Annandale Observer? In this article he coined the phrase “the devil’s porridge” to describe the explosive mixture the munitions workers were mixing, which is were The Devil’s Porridge Museum gets it’s name from!
Monday 2nd December
It was our last Arts and Crafts club before Christmas.
Thank you to Wendy and everyone who helps to make Arts and Crafts happen. Another thank you to all those who regularly join us for this, we really apricate your support throughout the year!
This week they made Christmas candles and decorated Chocolate bars! Below is a photo of this.
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Tuesday 3rd December
The 3rd of December marked our last school visit to The Devil’s Porridge Museum of 2024! It was lovely to have them all at The Devil’s Porridge Museum. As always you can click here to learn more about school visits>
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Thursday 5th December
Our Children’s Christmas Party took place on the 5th December.
We had party games, prizes, festive party food and even a dress the snowman competition for the parents to help with. The young people who came along were also treated to a visit to Santa himself!
Big thank you to everyone who helped with this and to all who joined us for this. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
Take a look at some photos from this event below.
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Saturday 7th December
Craft your Christmas was our last event of the year. The young people who came along created some beautiful Christmas Crafts and were even treated to a visit from Santa!
Thanks to Wendy, Calum, Santa and all those who helped and everyone who joined us for this.
Below are some photos of the Christmas crafts workshop.
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And that’s the end of our last Monthly Roundup for 2024!
The Devil’s Porridge Museum may be closed but you can still go back and read our last Monthly Roundup by clicking here> or find our social media accounts by clicking here>.
We’re re-opening on Monday 6th January 2025 and look forward to welcoming everyone back into The Devil’s Porridge Museum then!
In the meantime, we would like to say a huge thank you to our amazing volunteers and to everyone else who has supported The Devil’s Porridge Museum this year. We would also like to take the opportunity to wish all those who celebrate a very merry festive season and a Happy New Year. The Devil’s Porridge Museum will be open again on Monday 6th January 2025 and we’ll see you in January for our next Monthly Roundup. In the meantime stay safe and enjoy yourself!
