Ty so much for uploading that video ..I was born and bred in Plymouth and this has brought back many a childhood memory for me watching this remembering the times we had climbed the tower as children .. I left when I was 30 and moved to Australia .
Thank you for this upload, very interesting! Great design, and the tower is rock solid and only had to be replaced by a new one because the rock it was standing on has become cracked. I'm glad they rebuilt it for everyone to see. The entrance fee is a bit steep though - £5 per adult as of 2022.
@@PeterHaida I've just read the book "Smeaton's Tower" - fascinating read, a lot of details about how Smeaton built the lighthouse intervoven with an intriguing story about a fugitive!
Very interesting to see those candle holders. Imagine coming up with the idea to build such a significant structure just to put candles in the windows? I'm assuming this never got a Fresnel lens? Or was it removed and this equipment reinstalled?
I found a little more info on the lighthouse, there is more info on the link below. After the structure was completed, the lighthouse's 24 candles were lit on 16 October 1759, The lighthouse candles were replaced by oil lamps and reflectors from 1810. Further major renovations were carried out in 1841, Four years later the oil lamps and reflectors were replaced with and improved lamp and Fresnel lens assembly. In 1882 the upper part of Smeaton's Tower was dismantled and rebuilt as a memorial to Smeaton on a new base on Plymouth Hoe www.theboxplymouth.com/outside-the-box/smeatons-tower/about-smeatons-tower
8:20 - 8:56 Spiral stairway's design affords the defending right handed swordsman, & firearm defender a superior advantage... over the attacking foe's, right handed weapons. Flat Earthers... Please try & explian, if you can, why would these light towers have to be so high, if there wasn't an 8'' drop in height, for every mile of water level contour? -42419
@@LittleKitty22 As many swordsmen as it took to defend or take out the light that afforded either enemy's need for safe directional guidance I would suppose. What seems to you as being a Weirdo stems from having been trained to defend or take out strongholds. ~U.S. Paratrooper Sgt. 82nd Abn. Div. 1/504 way back in 1974. ''We Defend Those Lives We Do Not Live''
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Ty so much for uploading that video ..I was born and bred in Plymouth and this has brought back many a childhood memory for me watching this remembering the times we had climbed the tower as children .. I left when I was 30 and moved to Australia .
Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video, we had a great time visiting Plymouth.
I enjoyed that. Thanks for uploading this footage. I hope you enjoyed investigating the tower as much as I enjoyed watching the video.
Thank you, yes I do love to look around and explore historical buildings.
Brilliant thank you 😁👍👏👏👏
What glorious footage - thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this upload, very interesting! Great design, and the tower is rock solid and only had to be replaced by a new one because the rock it was standing on has become cracked. I'm glad they rebuilt it for everyone to see.
The entrance fee is a bit steep though - £5 per adult as of 2022.
You're welcome, yes, it was very interesting to look around and find out about its past, I think we paid £3 or £4 in 2017.
@@PeterHaida I've just read the book "Smeaton's Tower" - fascinating read, a lot of details about how Smeaton built the lighthouse intervoven with an intriguing story about a fugitive!
Very interesting to see those candle holders. Imagine coming up with the idea to build such a significant structure just to put candles in the windows? I'm assuming this never got a Fresnel lens? Or was it removed and this equipment reinstalled?
I found a little more info on the lighthouse, there is more info on the link below.
After the structure was completed, the lighthouse's 24 candles were lit on 16 October 1759, The lighthouse candles were replaced by oil lamps and reflectors from 1810. Further major renovations were carried out in 1841, Four years later the oil lamps and reflectors were replaced with and improved lamp and Fresnel lens assembly.
In 1882 the upper part of Smeaton's Tower was dismantled and rebuilt as a memorial to Smeaton on a new base on Plymouth Hoe
www.theboxplymouth.com/outside-the-box/smeatons-tower/about-smeatons-tower
The man should have gone down the steps backwards
Tartarians used this building tech long before we were fooled by man's lost history, MUD FLOODS
8:20 - 8:56 Spiral stairway's design affords the defending right handed swordsman, & firearm defender a superior advantage... over the attacking foe's, right handed weapons.
Flat Earthers... Please try & explian, if you can, why would these light towers have to be so high, if there wasn't an 8'' drop in height, for every mile of water level contour? -42419
Yeah well observed
Sold to be Diers Yes, because the Eddystone, 14 miles out at sea, was under constant attack from swordsmen.
Why so aggressive - and how many swordsmen do you think run around attacking lighthouses...??? Weirdo!
@@LittleKitty22 As many swordsmen as it took to defend or take out the light that afforded either enemy's need for safe directional guidance I would suppose. What seems to you as being a Weirdo stems from having been trained to defend or take out strongholds.
~U.S. Paratrooper Sgt. 82nd Abn. Div. 1/504 way back in 1974.
''We Defend Those Lives We Do Not Live''