Gretna Registration Office Official Website - Information on marriage and civil partnerships in gretna and gretna green
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| Gretna & Gretna Green |  |
 | The township of Gretna familiar to today’s visitors dates back to 1915. The town was the first new town to be Government sponsored and the major industry in the area was munitions, with a specially built cordite factory. The new Gretna was deemed a social experiment under the guidance of David Lloyd George (Minister of Munitions) and Raymond Unwin, attributed as being the man behind the huge housing drive in the 1920’s. |
Gretna was designed to house a contained community, along with its own hospital, school, shops, Police Station, Fire Service, halls, clubs and laundry. The churches were given individual designs and provided by the Ministry of Munitions. The Roman Catholic Church is in the Italian Renaissance style, the Church of Scotland building was also in an Italian style but with red tiles and rough walls, whereas the Scottish Episcopal Church was designed along the lines of Gothic architecture. |