Mulberry at Leith

Category

Library Item

Item no

37599

Title

Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VI, Mulberry at Leith - two pierheads off Leith Yard

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1944

Type

Press cutting; Reproduction

Mulberry at Leith, 1944 - The Mulberry harbours were two portable harbours, Mulberry A and Mulberry B, which were transported in sections to the coast of Normandy so that stores and reinforcements for the D-day landings in June 1944 could be offloaded onto the beaches. They were intended for use until a French port could be captured. Mulberry B was abandoned early due to storm damage but Mulberry A was used for ten months after D-day.

The majority of the construction work took place at Leith, on the shoreline between Western Harbour and the former Henry Robb & Co shipbuilding yards (where Ocean Terminal is now).

The third launch took place on 11th March. Six weeks later - Sunday 30th April, the ninth pierhead took the water.

Top image on page is from a church magazine article - 'On 7th February one hundred years ago, the Rev Dr James Mitchell intimated to South Leith Kirk Session that he had ''on Sunday last opened a new church in the parish... situate in Lorne Street'', an ''Iron Church'' at the time.' This was St Paul's Church, built in 1884, which is no longer in use.

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