Qualla: Lossiemouth https://qualla.com/lossiemouth en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/8/lossiemouth-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lossiemouth https://qualla.com/lossiemouth Lossiemouth: Introduction https://qualla.com/lossiemouth/ Photo credit Billreid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. It is a small place, about eight thousand people, two long sandy beaches divided by a winding river, and a harbour that no longer does much fishing. From the same bench on the foreshore you can watch herring gulls fight over chips and watch a Eurofighter Typhoon climb out of RAF Lossiemouth at full afterburner, headed north over the Norwegian Sea to meet whatever Russian aircraft are currently probing British airspace. Lossiemouth is a quiet town that lives on the edge of one of NATO's busiest air-policing missions.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/8/lossiemouth-wk/gfm8-lossiemouth-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lossiemouth: Gregory Place https://qualla.com/lossiemouth/ Photo credit Zenit, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk to the foot of Macduff Street, opposite the park, and look for a row of low cottages. There is a faint plaque by one of the doors. Inside, in 1866, was born James Ramsay MacDonald, the man who would become Britain's first Labour prime minister. He was illegitimate; MacDonald...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/8/lossiemouth-wk/gfm8-lossiemouth-gregory-place.mp3 0:06 2 full Lossiemouth: The QRA https://qualla.com/lossiemouth/ Photo credit User:Billreid, CC BY-SA 3.0. On the western edge of town is RAF Lossiemouth, the only operational Royal Air Force station left in Scotland. Four squadrons of Typhoon FGR4 fighters live there - Numbers 1, 2, 6 and 9 - and at any moment, day or night, a pair of them is sitting at the Quick Reaction Alert dispe...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/8/lossiemouth-wk/gfm8-lossiemouth-the-qra.mp3 0:06 3 full Lossiemouth: The Two Beaches https://qualla.com/lossiemouth/ Photo credit Billreid at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Lossiemouth has a beach on each side of town. East Beach is the better one for walking - a long sandy spit reached by a footbridge across the River Lossie from Church Street. The Spynie Canal meets the river here, a drainage channel finished in 1811 that was never quite navigable...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/8/lossiemouth-wk/gfm8-lossiemouth-the-two-beaches.mp3 0:06 4 full Lossiemouth: Beyond the Harbour https://qualla.com/lossiemouth/ Photo credit Look Sharp! at Dutch Wikipedia (Original text: P. Brundel), CC BY-SA 3.0. The fishing industry that built Lossiemouth has mostly gone. The small harbour, finished in stages through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is now mainly a marina. The Lossiemouth Fisheries and Community Museum holds the town memory - including the original Stevenson lens...

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