Qualla: New Quay https://qualla.com/new-quay en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: New Quay https://qualla.com/new-quay New Quay: Introduction https://qualla.com/new-quay/ Spell it backwards. That was Dylan Thomas's joke when he named the village in Under Milk Wood - Llareggub - a small piece of profanity disguised in Welsh-shaped letters and hidden in plain sight for decades. He had to be looking at somewhere when he wrote it, and the place he was looking at most often, the place where he wrote the first half of the play and gathered the characters who fill it, was New Quay. The town sits in tiers of pastel houses climbing the slope above a small stone harbour, painted in pinks and creams and pale blues that catch the afternoon light the way the watercolours of seaside guidebooks always promise but rarely deliver.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/new-quay-wp/gckc-new-quay-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full New Quay: More Sea Captains Than Anywhere https://qualla.com/new-quay/ In 1907 a local newspaper made a boast that turned out to be true: New Quay had more retired sea captains living in it than any other town of its size in Wales. By the 1840s the place had three shipyards turning out smacks and schooners and ocean-going vessels bound for Australia...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/new-quay-wp/gckc-new-quay-more-sea-captains-than-anywhere.mp3 0:06 2 full New Quay: Majoda https://qualla.com/new-quay/ Dylan and Caitlin Thomas moved into a cliff-top bungalow called Majoda on 4 September 1944. The place was made of wood and asbestos, had no electricity, no gas, no running water, and the lavatory was outside. They stayed ten months, through one of the coldest Cardiganshire winter...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/new-quay-wp/gckc-new-quay-majoda.mp3 0:06 3 full New Quay: The Characters of Llareggub https://qualla.com/new-quay/ Walk down Church Street and you walk past the addresses of half the people in the play. Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard is the surnames of two real Church Street women - Mrs Ogmore Davies and Mrs Pritchard-Jones - combined. Willy Nilly the postman, who opens letters and spreads the news, wa...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/c/new-quay-wp/gckc-new-quay-the-characters-of-llareggub.mp3 0:06 4 full New Quay: Bottlenose Dolphins and the Coast Path https://qualla.com/new-quay/ Today New Quay's harbour is busy with a different kind of trade. Boats run out into Cardigan Bay to find the resident bottlenose dolphins - the largest such pod in the UK, more than 300 strong, drawn by the food-rich currents that sweep along this coast. From the Ceredigion Coast...

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