Gardening Club will continue on Saturday 28th May 2022.
From 10 am – 12 noon
Ever fancied growing your own food?
If so come to gardening club to help to grow fresh produce in The Devil’s Porridge Museum’s Dig for Victory Garden. Learn new gardening skills and have fun!
Please book your place by phoning: 01461 700021
Beginners Art Club!
Thursday 5th May – 2nd June.
10:30 am – 12 noon
Beginners art club classes cost £4 per class or £20 for 5 weeks.
Ever wanted to improve your art skills and do something fulfilling? If you are between 18 and 99+ please come and try our Beginners Art Club at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.
With the advice of art professional, Jack O’Hara you can draw hands, faces, landscapes, glasses, bottles, flowers- or bring a photo/picture that inspires!
Please phone The Devil’s Porridge Museum on 01461 700021 to book a space.
Unfortunately, this event is now CANCELED and will no longer be taking place.
Above: Jack O’Hara
The Devil’s Porridge Museum is pleased to continue it’s popular programme of online talks and events for 2022. These online talks are all about a subject which links to local history or the themes of the Museum. All events are free.
Tickets are now avalible for the following online talks.
Book on Eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/from-the-western-front-to-the-scottish-national-war-memorial-tickets-308135971987?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
The story of illustrator Morris Meredith Williams and his wife and creative collaborator, sculptor Alice Meredith Williams ARBS.
In the run-up to the First World War, artists Morris and Alice Meredith Williams were leading a quiet life in Edinburgh. He was illustrating books and teaching drawing at Fettes College. She was making small, often whimsical, sculptures in clay and bronze, and designing stained glass windows.
The outbreak of war changed everything. Morris spent four years in the army, three of them in France – first in the infantry, then the artillery and finally, in a camouflage unit. When not on duty, he filled pocket-sized sketchbooks with detailed pencil drawings of his fellow soldiers and their surroundings. Alice’s work slowed down until, in 1917, she was asked by the Women’s Work Sub Committee of the Imperial War Museum to model a collection of 3D plaster panoramas of the roles played by women during the war. The Scottish architect Sir Robert Lorimer was impressed by them and invited her to collaborate on a war memorial for a town in South Africa. It was Alice’s first large-scale work and led to commissions for the Paisley War Memorial and for the Scottish National War Memorial at Edinburgh Castle. Here, the marriage of Morris’s painstaking draughtsmanship and Alice’s brilliance as a sculptor produced the remarkable the frieze around at the centre of the memorial.
This talk will be delivered by Phyllida Shaw.
Phyllida Shaw studied history and French at Lancaster University and has worked for 35 years as a researcher, writer and facilitator in the arts and voluntary sector. She inherited the First World War sketchbooks and letters of Morris Meredith Williams from her great aunt (Williams’ second wife). She is the author of An Artist’s War. The art and letters of Morris and Alice Meredith Williams (The History Press, 2017) and Undaunted Spirit. The art and craft of Gertrude Alice Meredith Williams (Independent Publishing Network, 2018). She has given talks on these two extraordinary artists for the National Archives, the Royal Society of Sculptors, the National Galleries of Scotland, the Public Statues and Sculpture Association, the Western Front Association and literature festivals in Henley, Lichfield and Taunton.
This event will be held via Zoom and a joining link will be sent on the day.
Eastriggs the Commonwealth Village is coming together to celebrate Commonwealth Week from March 12th to March 19th 2022. A number of local organisations are coming together to put on an impressive array of activities over that period. Read more about all the events that will be happening below.
10am – 12 noon and 2.00pm – 3.30pm
A Tractor Pull Challenge sponsered by SJ Barbers and Touch of Beauty will be happening at The Devil’s Porridge Museum. Why not come and see how far you can pull it? There’s a £25 cash prize for both Ladies and Gents challenges.
7:30pm – 12:30am
At Eastriggs Social Club, featuring ‘Back2Back’ and Status Quo tribute Peter Kelly. Tickets £8 from the Club or The Devil’s Porridge Museum. There will be prizes for the best Commonwealth fancy dress!
10am – 4pm
Learn all about life in World War One with living history performers The Time Bandits at The Devil’s Porridge Museum.
Booking online to visit the Museum is essential to avoid disappointment when we are busy. You can book your visit to the museum here: https://www.devilsporridge.org.uk/product/tickets
6pm – 8pm
There will be a FREE open evening at The Devil’s Porridge Museum where you can meet Emma Gilliland, the new Curator, and enjoy tastes of the Commonwealth.
Look out for MyPod Youth Bus!
Starts 7pm at The Wayside Inn.
Your host for the evening is Harry H. Could you be the Eastriggs Commonwealth Champion? Followed by traditional karaoke – who will be voted the best male and female singers? £60 in prizes.
12 noon – 4pm
Free admission and fun for all the family at Melbourn park!
The family of Andrew Hume, a music teacher living in Dumfries, was it seemed beset by tragedy. After the loss of his son ‘Jock’, a bandsman on the Titanic, in 1912, it was reported in September 1914 that his elder daughter Grace, a nurse working for the Red Cross in Belgium, had been brutally murdered by the advancing German army.
The Hume family’s troubles understandably achieved national prominence. But this was more than a personal disaster. It takes us to the heart of the wider issue of wartime ‘atrocities’ and their impact on the way the First World War was understood at the time and since.
This talk will present a fascinating glimpse into local life at the start of the Twentieth Century. The talk will be presented by David Dutton who has taught for many years at the University of Liverpool and is now Ramsay Muir Emeritus Professor of Modern History there. He has written or edited seventeen books and around a hundred chapters and journal articles on twentieth-century British political and diplomatic history.
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