At the outbreak of the [[First World War]] major armament factories were set up in the Carlisle-[[Gretna]] area (this was considered safe fron [[German]] naval bombardment or raiding). Worried about the safety implications of drunken munitions workers, the Government in 1916 nationalised all the pubs and breweries in the area; known as the State Managment Scheme, this was only ended in 1971. | At the outbreak of the [[First World War]] major armament factories were set up in the Carlisle-[[Gretna]] area (this was considered safe fron [[German]] naval bombardment or raiding). Worried about the safety implications of drunken munitions workers, the Government in 1916 nationalised all the pubs and breweries in the area; known as the State Managment Scheme, this was only ended in 1971. |