IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Greenock Road, LARGS, KA30 8PQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Greenock Road, KA30 8PQ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (243 Images Found)
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House near the north end of the promenade, Largs
Image: © Humphrey Bolton
Taken: 28 Apr 2013
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Vanduara (Noddsdale Green)
During World War II Vanduara Hotel was used as a nerve-centre by Combined Operations for planning the D-Day landings. It was secretly known as HMS Monck.
Image: © Raibeart MacAoidh
Taken: 9 Oct 2016
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HMS Monck - Vanduara
Vanduara was used by Combined Operations and instead of being prepared for the onset of the busy tourist season in Easter 1942, the summer holiday residence became H.M.S Monck - headquarters of the Combined Operations and nerve-centre of many attacks on German-held Europe.
A conference was held there between 28 June 1943 and 2 July 1943, code name RATTLE, under Lord Louis Mountbatten and was known as the Field of the Cloth of Gold because of the number of high ranking officers taking part.
The townspeople of Largs were blissfully unaware that one of the most crucial conferences in the history of the world was taking place right under their very noses.
Some noticed more security around Vanduara and Hollywood Hotels along Greenock Road. By then most people knew that military bigwigs were using the hotels as a base. Churchill and General Dwight Eisenhower, Allied Supreme Commander, and later 34th President of the United States of America, visited Largs during the conference.
The two great leaders stayed at St Phillans, which later became the Manor Park Hotel between Largs and Skelmorlie. The high profile conference talks took place at Vanduara, with Lord Mountbatten later saying that the Largs gathering was one of the crucial points in the preparation of the D-Day landings.
Image: © Raibeart MacAoidh
Taken: 11 Jan 2017
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Vanduara, Largs
The location of crucial planning meetings that shaped the outcome of the Second World War.
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Image: © Richard Dorrell
Taken: 10 Aug 2021
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Floral arrangement
In a traffic island on Aubery Crescent at the promenade.
Image: © Thomas Nugent
Taken: 17 Aug 2008
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Largs Promenade, North Ayrshire
The Ferris wheel and promenade as seen from Aubery Crescent.
Image: © Mark S
Taken: 23 Sep 2021
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