Qualla: Largs https://qualla.com/largs 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: Largs https://qualla.com/largs Largs: Introduction https://qualla.com/largs/ In June 1943, the Hollywood Hotel in Largs was redesignated HMS Warren. From 28 June to 2 July, behind blackout curtains in a seaside hotel on the Firth of Clyde, the Allies decided where to invade Europe. The code name was RATTLE. Lord Louis Mountbatten chaired it. The number of high-ranking officers in town was so great that the conference was known as the "Field of the Cloth of Gold," after a famous diplomatic spectacle of 1520. Churchill came. Eisenhower came. They stayed at St Phillans, later the Manor Park Hotel. And in that seaside resort, the decision was made: Normandy.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/t/largs-wp/gcut-largs-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Largs: Vikings on the Slopes https://qualla.com/largs/ The Gaelic name of the town, An Leargaidh, simply means "the slopes," and the slopes have been inhabited for a very long time. The Haylie Chambered Tomb in Douglas Park dates to around 3000 BC, a Neolithic burial place once covered by a stone cairn called Margaret's Law. Then cam...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/t/largs-wp/gcut-largs-vikings-on-the-slopes.mp3 0:06 2 full Largs: Pier and Resort https://qualla.com/largs/ The pier was built in 1834, the railway arrived in 1895, and large hotels followed. Largs transformed from a village clustered around its kirk into one of the great Victorian seaside resorts of western Scotland. William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, the physicist who gave his name to the...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/t/largs-wp/gcut-largs-pier-and-resort.mp3 0:06 3 full Largs: Brisbane, Mountbatten, and Mourinho https://qualla.com/largs/ Sir Thomas Brisbane, sixth Governor of New South Wales, was born at Brisbane House just up the river from Largs. His name now belongs to a major Australian city. Lord Louis Mountbatten ran his D-Day planning conference here in 1943. Inverclyde Sports Centre, opened by Queen Eliza...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/t/largs-wp/gcut-largs-brisbane-mountbatten-and-mourinho.mp3 0:06 4 full Largs: Stones, Aisles, and Annual Returns https://qualla.com/largs/ Skelmorlie Aisle, built by Sir Robert Montgomerie in 1636 as a family mausoleum, is all that remains of the medieval kirk of Largs and is now in the care of Historic Environment Scotland. The Pencil monument south of the town centre commemorates the 1263 battle. The Largs war mem...

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