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Jean & Sue’s Lighthouses

as part of Mamie Martin Fund’s #Birthday30 challenge

Jean and/or Sue spotted 30 lighthouses across 3 countries

01 Uni of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station.
02 Chanonry Point lighthouse
03 St Abb’s Head
04 Berwick-upon-Tweed
05 Seahouses, Northumberland
06 Bamburgh, Northumberland
07 Inner Farne lighthouse, Northumberland
08 Brownsman Island, very old lighthouse
09 Brownsman Island, old lighthouse
10 Longstone lighthouse, Farne Islands
11 Berwick on Tweed Town Hall
12 Fladda lighthouse
13 Ardnamurchan
14 Lismore
15 Phare de Port-La-Nouvelle in a gale
16 Phare de Port Leucate
17 Pepper Lighthouse at Fort Augustus. One of three on the Caledonian Canal and the smallest lighthouses in Britain 
18 Hoy Sound Low
19 Hoy Sound High, Orkney
20 Brough of Birsay, Orkney
21 Tobermory
22 Noup Head Lighthouse, Westray
23 Lybster
24 Corran Pt Lighthouse
25 Feu de Narbonne
26 Whitby West Pier
27 Whitby East Pier
28 Whitby West Extension Lighthouse
29 Gruissan Nord
30 Gruissan Sud
  • 01 Uni of Aberdeen Lighthouse Field Station. Jean writes: “Designed by Alan Stevenson in 1846 and now a Field Station, run by Aberdeen University. I have a theory that my gg grandfather, who eventually became a lighthouse keeper, once worked there as a joiner.
  • 08 & 09 Brownsman Island, Northumberland. Two lighthouse ruins (1800 and 1811), replaced by the Longstone – look closely and see the seals!
  • 10 Longstone lighthouse, Farne Islands, Northumberland. Home of Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper’s daughter, famous for rescuing survivors from the 1838 wreck of the Forfarshire.
  • 11 The spire of Berwick on Tweed Town Hall served as the original landing light before a lighthouse was built.