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Leith Yard, March 1944
Unknown, 1944, Photograph, Reproduction
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Leith Yard, March 1944
Leith Yard, March 1944
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Page from Leith Miscellany, volume VI, Leith Yard, March 1944
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1944
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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).
Mulberry at Leith, 1944. Four launching bays were constructed along the dock basin to speed the building of pierheads.
The other picture shows Restalrig Village around 1910, when the Restalrig area was mainly farmland and dairies. New building started about 1925.
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