Qualla: Millisle https://qualla.com/millisle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/millisle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Millisle https://qualla.com/millisle Millisle: Introduction https://qualla.com/millisle/ Photo credit Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0. Between 1939 and 1948, a small farm on the Woburn Road outside Millisle became a home for children who had escaped the Nazi regime. The Kindertransport had carried roughly 10,000 Jewish children out of Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to safety in Britain. Some of them were sent across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland. While many lived with foster families, a number ended up at the Millisle Refugee Farm, known locally as Magill's Farm, where they were fed, schooled and quietly absorbed into village life. The farm closed in 1948 once the last of its young people had found other paths. There is no grand monument. The story is part of the village's bone structure now, carried in commemorative plaques and the long memories of the people who worked the land alongside the children they were sheltering.

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/millisle-wp/gcsn-millisle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Millisle: The Meadow of the Mill https://qualla.com/millisle/ Photo credit Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0. The name Millisle comes from the Scots words mill and isle, which together mean something close to the meadow of the mill. The Scottish settlers who arrived during the Plantation of Ulster may have brought the name with them from a hamlet of the same name in Wigtownshire, just ac...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/millisle-wp/gcsn-millisle-the-meadow-of-the-mill.mp3 0:06 2 full Millisle: The Airfield That Refused to Be Built https://qualla.com/millisle/ Photo credit Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1944, military engineers began construction on Millisle Airfield, intended as a base for the United States Army Air Forces. The Second World War was approaching its endgame and Allied aviation needed every paved acre it could secure. The ground had other ideas. Surveys showed ...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/millisle-wp/gcsn-millisle-the-airfield-that-refused-to-be-built.mp3 0:06 3 full Millisle: Amy Carmichael https://qualla.com/millisle/ Photo credit Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0. Amy Carmichael was born in Millisle in 1867. By the time she was thirty-three she had founded a mission in southern India that rescued children, mostly girls, from temple prostitution and abuse. She stayed in India for fifty-five years and never returned to Ulster. Her books, wri...

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]]> Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/s/n/millisle-wp/gcsn-millisle-amy-carmichael.mp3 0:06 4 full Millisle: The Lagoon and the Slow Tide https://qualla.com/millisle/ Photo credit Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Millisle Lagoon and Beach Park stretches 150 metres along the eastern shore of the Ards Peninsula. In 2010 it won one of eight Northern Ireland Tourist Board Seaside Awards for natural beauty and cleanliness. The lagoon itself is a shallow, tide-fed pool that warms faster tha...

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