The Eddystone lighthouse and BBC's "Coast" programme.

[Wacky Racer]

Watched a feature on this last night, on BBC's excellent "Coast" series, what a fascinating story behind it's long history....

http://www.eddystoneeel.com/LIGHTHOUSE%20HISTORY.h...

Last nights programme featured Bournemouth/Poole to Devon.

Available on BBCi player if anyone missed it.....

[dogbucket]

I have a book called 'It Was Fun While It Lasted' by A J Lane which is his humorous account of lighthouse keeping on the Eddystone in the 1950s. Worth a read if it interests you.

[Wacky Racer]

dogbucket said:

I have a book called 'It Was Fun While It Lasted' by A J Lane which is his humorous account of lighthouse keeping on the Eddystone in the 1950s. Worth a read if it interests you.

Thanks, I'll look out for it....

[anonymous-user]

If you're into lighthouses you'll like this one.

Due to coastal erosion the famous 193' Cape Hatteras lighthouse in North Carolina was under threat of collapse ..... so they picked it up and moved it - all in one piece - all 11,000 tons of it. See the link,

http://lighthousegetaway.com/lights/hattmove.html

Not unlike getting a Saturn V rocket onto its launch pad at cape Canaveral!

[Simpo Two]

I have a great book called 'The Red Rocks of Eddystone' by Fred Majdalany. It's been out of print but if you can get a copy you'll enjoy it - http://www.alibris.co.uk/search/books/qwork/560349...

[peterperkins]

^^^^ What he said. That really is an excellent book charting the history of the various lighthouses that have been built there. One of my all time favourites.

When men were men, and a days work was riding a tiny boat out to the rocks and chipping away at the red Gneiss with a toothpick to lay one or two stones before going back again.

The first Lighthouse built by Henry Winstanley was swept away with him inside it during a huge storm similar to our Hurricane of 1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Winstanley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddystone_lighthouse

Edited by peterperkins on Wednesday 11th March 14:48