Basic Site Details Name: | Eastriggs Garden Village | Town, district or village: | Eastriggs | City or county: | Dumfriesshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Built to accommodated munitions workers at the nearby factories. The chief township at Gretna included housing for men and women together with, laundry, bakery, and central kitchen for distributing food to the hostels, and mess rooms for the factory hands. The subsidiary township of Eastriggs provided accommodation for labour living near the western end of the munitioms factory, and not far from Dornock Station
Architect Raymond Unwin FRIBA. Chief Assistant architect S. B. Russell. FRIBA Resident architect Courtney M. Crickmer, F.R.I.B.A., Others. C E Simmons, Geoffrey Lucas, H A Saul, R. S. Bowers, A. O Cave and Harold Burgess.
| Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Village | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1916 | 1918 | | |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Samuel Bridgman Russell | | | | | Chief asistant architect | | Courtenay Melville Crickmer | | | 1916 | 1918 | Resident architect | | Raymond Unwin | | A | 1916 | 1918 | Master plan |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Explosives Department. Ministry of Munitions | |
Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsChild StructuresThis structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details): | | Building Name | Notes | | Post Office Eastriggs | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Gifford, John | 1996 | Dumfries and Galloway (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p321 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 3 January 1919 | | | p25 and Supplement to issue of 3 January 1919 Page xvi-xxiv - photographs
| | Building News | 2 October 1918 | | | p232 and illustrations including layout plan of the village | | Building News | 16 October 1918 | | | p255 and illustrations | | Building News | 23 October 1918 | | | p283 and illustrations | | Building News | 13 November 1918 | | | p332 and illustrations |
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