Qualla: Garlieston https://qualla.com/garlieston en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Garlieston https://qualla.com/garlieston Garlieston: Introduction https://qualla.com/garlieston/ The beach was the whole point. Sometime in 1942, military planners spread Admiralty charts across a table and looked for a piece of British coast that matched the unknown bays of Normandy. They needed similar gradients, similar tides, and absolute privacy. They picked Garlieston. From that moment, this small planned village on the Solway coast became the rehearsal stage for one of the most ambitious engineering operations of the Second World War: the Mulberry Harbours that would float across the Channel and feed the Allied invasion of France.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/garlieston-wp/gcsz-garlieston-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Garlieston: A Georgian Plan on a Wigtownshire Shore https://qualla.com/garlieston/ Garlieston was built on a drawing board long before the war ever needed it. In the mid 18th century Lord Garlies, later 6th Earl of Galloway, laid out a planned coastal village along Georgian lines on the edge of his family seat, Galloway House. The neat crescents that still curv...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/garlieston-wp/gcsz-garlieston-a-georgian-plan-on-a-wigtownshire-shore.mp3 0:06 2 full Garlieston: Hippos and Beetles in the Bay https://qualla.com/garlieston/ Then came the war, and the secret. Prototypes of three Mulberry Harbour designs were trialled in Garlieston Harbour and at nearby Rigg Bay and Portyerrock. Engineers floated vast concrete caissons, code-named Phoenix, Hippo and other unlovely names; they tested floating roadways ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/garlieston-wp/gcsz-garlieston-hippos-and-beetles-in-the-bay.mp3 0:06 3 full Garlieston: What the Tide Left Behind https://qualla.com/garlieston/ One reminder of the secret war stayed in Garlieston long after the soldiers left. A concrete Hippo caisson sat in Cruggleton Bay for decades, half-submerged, photographed by curious holidaymakers. A storm finally broke it apart on Sunday 12 March 2006. The Beetles, the floating-r...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/z/garlieston-wp/gcsz-garlieston-what-the-tide-left-behind.mp3 0:06 4 full Garlieston: After the Trains, After the Secret https://qualla.com/garlieston/ The bustle ebbed away. Garlieston railway station closed in 1964, and most of the port industry that had defined the village for two centuries faded out. Today the place is quiet in the particular Galloway way, all whitewashed crescents and gulls and the slow tick of weather. Gal...

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