Thank you Peter, a very emotive video which brought back many memories of: the smell of warm diesel fumes wafting up the passage from the engine room, squeaky chamois, the endless echo of the foghorn and steam rising from the engine room cooling tanks. We lived at the Lizard from 1957-1964, and although you video was 30 years later very little had changed. Wen we where there the PK was Gordon Roberts, AK’s Ron Smith and Charlie Cherrett and the PK’s of the Wolf, were Jack Freathy and Eddystone, Stan Davis. I remember both Mike and Fred Rosewall as SAK’s and I recall playing crib with them in the ‘supers’ quarters. They were very different times and I was lucky to grow up with such lovely people at such a fantastic place. Thank you, Peter.
Thank you too Peter, not least of all for your memories of the Lizard. And all of those names of Keepers that I've never heard of before, I'm glad you've given them and yourself a mention here, as it really makes this channel worthwhile, thanks again, great to hear from you. Take care and stay safe.
A masterpiece of light beams in the fog here, the uncanny rural silences and wave noises, the running of a Gardner and rabbits. All with no irritating music. Audio interviews with fixed photos would be great if you are exhausting video reserves. Similarly, long loops of monotonous sounds would be great for sleep videos ( 8 hours of fog horn, generators, lamp turning gear etc? ) just might go viral. (We tried that with one of our Kaphi Kapa coffee roasting videos, although never went viral !) Thanks as ever for your great efforts .
Thank you Phil for your very kind comments, much appreciated. Some good ideas there as well, some that I've toyed with thanks, but nothing definite yet. Cheers and stay safe
Enjoy all of your films Peter, especially this one. Hard nowadays to imagine the wide variation of jobs keepers had to do. And to think that by 1974 the entire coastline of England/Wales was protected by just 250 keepers is just mind-blowing. Must be hard to get sleep when the fog horn is blowing though.
Thank you Duncan, strangely though, once you got used to the fog horn, it quite often woke you up when it stopped! Glad you liked the video, cheers and stay safe Mate
I know my Sunday is going to start well when Peter uploads another interesting video. Looking forward to casting this to the Big Screen for my breakfast viewing. Hope this comment finds you well Peter.
Wow what a truly fantastic video Peter an amazing insight into the life of Lizard lighthouse very emotional to knowing this wonderful profession is about to come to an end . The pride and skill in the machinery nothing comes close to that today . You deserve a knighthood for filming this history for future generations to remember and enjoy. Thank you so much 👏👏
Thank you David for your very kind comments. Glad you enjoyed it, not sure what comes next as I've pretty much run out of content other than some ideas still up in the air, but still have several audio tapes. Cheers and stay safe.
Always interesting. I have seen Lighthouses from San Diego California , through Oregon, Washington on the West Coast of the USA and some of British Columbia Canada. Thank you from Bakersfield California USA.
Thanks again Peter. Perhaps you could make a video in your own words telling us what happened after you were made redundant 😮 (I did note you drove for the RAF) and how it was like leaving something you loved so much.
Thanks Peter for another amazing video. You should make a compilation video of the foghorns you have recorded. Would be very interesting and amazing. Thanks for keeping history alive
@@aodhanquinn3000 I'm hoping they are still with us, but I don't know for sure as we all lost touch. I also have no idea what they all did other than Fred, who was retired before I was made redundant, sorry. cheers and stay safe.
@PeterHalil Hi Peter hipe you are well. What would have happened or what would the course of action be if the fog signal coder or timer suddenly malfunctioned? How would the fog horn have been sounded if that was the case and had it ever happened before. Cheers.
Thank you so much for shooting, editing and uploading all this footage. It's a precious record - I hope there are copies in a suitable archive as this is fabulous social history which should be treasured. Apart from visiting South Stack and being impressed by the lenses I've never given lighthouses much thought - until now - wow! (Although with climate change and increasingly severe storms I'm quite glad none of you are out at sea on the towers any more).
Thank you Rachel for your very kind comments, much appreciated. No, my videos have not made it to an archive source yet, we've been trying but have come up against little interest other than one that wanted me to sign over copyright to them! no chance. Will still keep looking. Thanks again and stay safe.
Wow, your film makes the Manacles look almost inviting. As a youngster in the 80s in Mullion I'd go down to the Old Inn, I remember there was supposed to be bad luck taking a drink from a Lighthouse man? The early throaty Fog Horn was oddly comforting heard from Meaver Road and drowned out the sound of Helicopters, in the Winter during a severe Gale I imagined if Cornwall was set adrift by the Sea we could always be found by the Lighthouses and horns. In 1995 I went to Jersey and met Ted and his Wife who were the Keepers at La Corbiere Lighthouse off St Aubins, earlier in the day he'd lent me a pair of 20 x 50 Zeiss binoculars the Germans had left behind after 1945. Very odd interior to that building, the living space was all on the bottom floor and maybe thirty foot high with a spiral staircase to go to the Light and machinery floors. 6 months on Jersey and that random meeting was my favourite day.
Thank you for all those memories Peter, much appreciated. I've never heard that bad luck one about taking a drink from a Lighthouse Keeper before. I wonder if it was told so that you bought them one ? Cheers
Hi Peter, Be interesting if you could do another film looking back on your lighthouse days and what happened after the unwanted redundancies? Quite sad to see a keeper being made redundant. A great video
Superb in depth video, fascinating to watch. I’ve always found lighthouses so exciting and graceful. What are your thoughts on the static LED replacements that so many lighthouses are receiving now? I mean I totally get why it’s happening, but it’s so sad to see these magnificent lenses being retired. My nearest lighthouse is Portland Bill, which I’m sure you’re aware had an incredible lens with a very complex flash characteristic. It’s just not the same now they’ve replaced it. Thank you for your amazing videos.
Absolutely brilliant video pete ,remember going there in 1999 with Rod and got a free tour of the hole complex By pk eddie mathews showed me how the Davy escape worked the weather station and engine room O boy was i in paradise .Hope your all safe and well cheers john.
Thank you John, glad you liked it. Don't know what they kept of that engine room for the visitors to see, perhaps one day I might get back to see? Cheers and stay safe
Thanks Peter another gem of a video. The lizard featured in Robbie Coltrane plane, trains,and automobiles all about the diesel engine. Quick question, if the curtains in the lamp room we're there to stop sunlight refracting through the glass and starting a fire. Which I'm sure has happened, what happens now that there are no keepers on station ???
Hi, Glad you liked the video. as for curtains and fires now the places are unmanned, If they keep the big rotating lenses, then they are kept running all day to stop that problem. Otherwise, the stationary lenses (that don't have the big circular bulls eye magnifying lenses in) they have the LED lights and no curtains and don't seem to be effected by the sun. Cheers and stay safe
Great video again mate, nice to show us an old way of life inside something we can't really get to see, although the Lizard does have a holiday cottage. Can't wait for the next one.
@@PeterHalil I've only just found out about your channel through a Reddit comment, and to be honest I haven't watched a video all the way through yet. My grandfather has been a fisherman quite longer than I've been alive and I'm sure has used lighthouses for navigation and a feeling of safety in the ocean. It's fascinating to know what it used to take to operate this massive piece of history, navigation, and technology. Is there any way you would be able to start visiting the same lighthouses you've made videos of to be able to showcase what's changed, and maybe learn how they now are operated? I would be very interested in learning about the new technology and how it's changed from your era as well as watching all your existing videos about how life in lighthouses used to be.
@@RimsideStudios Hi, Glad you found my channel, and hope you enjoy the videos. I doubt that I will be revisiting the lighthouses in my videos, unless I'm on holiday near one that opens to tourists. The reason is that Trinity House wont let me! new rules apparently, and being an ex Keeper counts for not very much. I missed a couple of lights before I was made redundant, and they wont let me visit those to complete my lighthouse task, hopefully though, and it's a big maybe, somebody still employed by Trinity will video those for me. Your Grandfather must have had an interesting sea life, cheers and stay safe
@@PeterHalil he has for sure. I'm still trying to have him take me out on the Pacific but distance makes it difficult haha. It's unfortunate to hear about with the way things have evolved for the lighthouses. Thank you for recording what you have though
Great video with lots of tranquil scenes just right for a Sunday morning. You must have been doing something right to be amongst the final 30 keepers before they all went. If this wasn't a tower or rock station why couldn't you see your family at some point during Xmas day?
Thank you for your kind comments. The easy answer to why I couldn't see my Family over the Christmas period was my home is 7 hours plus away, also I was on duty. Couldn't they have travelled down to me? No, we only have one car. Just one of those things that happen to lots of Families over Christmases etc. Cheers and take care
Outstanding job Peter. Fred was an outstanding tour guide, I knew about the mercury but I didn't know there was 800lbs of it. I didn't remember that the Lizard was in Cornwall, isn't that where you get the best pasty?
Thank you, and yes to Fred being a great tour guide. He went into much more detail than I did. Where I was lacking on some of the historic dates, I made up with telling about life in a lighthouse out to sea. And yes, the Lizard pasty shop mmm! cheers and take care
So interesting comparing UK towers to Australian ones. I’ve noticed most of the UK ones have the balcony directly in front of the glass and lenses, where as here, the glass is 2m higher than the balcony
Me too, perhaps I should do a video of all of the fog horn sounds that I have? I even have a recording of the San Francisco Bay bridge in fog with lots of ships/fog horns plus traffic in the mix, quite atmospheric. No idea of the author so don't know if I could ever upload it. I think it was done in the 60's era? Cheers and stay safe.
@@PeterHalili wonder how loud in decibels it is. Its sad the mighty moo of the siren has gon to a pathetic little beep. Same with other diaphones and sirens on the coasts of the world. Typhon horns dont do it for me. I love the MWOOOOOOOO MWOOO of this fog siren
@@jezcolborne6329 Thank you for your comments. The old fog horns are the one that I love the best too. Even the new electric ones will be doomed to all go, if they haven't gone already.
@@PeterHalil i am going to be makung a show about lighthouses in the past. There will be old lighthouse keepers on films telling stories snd sounds of old diaphone fog horns and fog sirens. I will be playing a lighthouse keeper who has been in his lighthouse for years and no one knew he was still there. He has been forgotten and in time gets delusional. He starts to have bad dreams of equipment coming to life and trying to automate his lighthouse. He then sees 2 robots who try to attack him because he hates them messing with the fog siren and other gear. Time goes on and the lighthouse is no longer his. The fog siren is now a horrible beep from an electronic hooter but he turns that off and tries to switch the old fog siren back on but the controle pannel wont let him. He gives up and wakes from his nightmare only to find that the lighthouse is realy automated. So he dicides instead of battling this new tech why not have a rave instead so thats what happens and there is music with me being a distant fog siren and other foghorns sounding.
Yes, the engine room was rather special at the Lizard. I'm not sure what it looks like now though, as I haven't been back since my redundancy. Thanks and take care.
Lizard Lighthouse has one of the most badass sounding fog horns, it almost sounds like a diaphone. One guy who said on another video it could be heard 22 miles away.
Thank you for your comments. And yes, I love/loved the Lizard fog horn too. I think that wonderful engine room, and all we had to do to get it to make the noise, made it that bit more special. Cheers and stay safe
Your coworker acting as the “tour guide” did an excellent job…I’m sure he’d given that speech hundreds of times by then but he still sounds just as enthusiastic about the history and mechanics of the Light as somebody on their first day.
Thank you very much, yes Fred was a great friend and Principal Keeper. Sadly no longer with us . RIP Fred. Thanks again for your comments and take care.
I hope the lighthouse keepers quarters were sound insulated. Being stuck in a rock with that fog horn blowing non-stop must've been annoying to put it mildly.
This was quite hard to watch ... I find it hard to accept that this way of keeping people safe was deemed so worthless than a price tag became more important.
Hi Matt, Yes, I agree, but then I'm heavily biased. Everything now seems to come down to cost, apart from Politicians and CEO's wages! Take care and stay safe
Yes, that was a job that I went to work every day with a big smile, you felt like you were doing something, not just part of the machinery. Cheers mate and take care.
Hi, The range of the fog horns are very hard to work out. It all depended on the thickness of the fog/weather conditions, but on a clear day when testing, it was several miles. cheers and stay safe.
Gee him the job! He knows our club & understands our strategic way of play, no brainer for me, alternatively neil lennon back would be a must, we need to stop bringing in managers that are recluse, we need a boss that knows the club! Mon hibs
I was trying to reply to my football club highlights when I was binge watching your channel mate, my bad!😄 Your footage of your experiences of living so remote is very fascinating & a life I wish I led, it's sad that so many lighthouses are automated and obsolete nowadays.. my childhood favourite is our own Scottish Isle of Fidra lighthouse, the public don't seem to have access inside 😮💨 even on the bass rock, great videos nether the less mate
No worries, one of my greatest regrets was not filming the Scottish Lighthouses too. I shall now have to google Fidra to see what you mean. Cheers Mate and stay safe@@MessianicChristianFollowship86
Cheers, yes my job was a very relaxing sort of job at times, it is/was a shame that it is gone forever, I do miss it. Cheers and stay safe.@@MessianicChristianFollowship86
Thanks for sharing with us 🙏
Thank you very much, and Merry Christmas.
Thank you Peter, a very emotive video which brought back many memories of:
the smell of warm diesel fumes wafting up the passage from the engine room, squeaky chamois, the endless echo of the foghorn and steam rising from the engine room cooling tanks.
We lived at the Lizard from 1957-1964, and although you video was 30 years later very little had changed. Wen we where there the PK was Gordon Roberts, AK’s Ron Smith and Charlie Cherrett and the PK’s of the Wolf, were Jack Freathy and Eddystone, Stan Davis.
I remember both Mike and Fred Rosewall as SAK’s and I recall playing crib with them in the ‘supers’ quarters.
They were very different times and I was lucky to grow up with such lovely people at such a fantastic place.
Thank you, Peter.
Thank you too Peter, not least of all for your memories of the Lizard. And all of those names of Keepers that I've never heard of before, I'm glad you've given them and yourself a mention here, as it really makes this channel worthwhile, thanks again, great to hear from you. Take care and stay safe.
Very interesting, Thank you for sharing. With automation, how often do the lens get cleaned?
A masterpiece of light beams in the fog here, the uncanny rural silences and wave noises, the running of a Gardner and rabbits. All with no irritating music. Audio interviews with fixed photos would be great if you are exhausting video reserves. Similarly, long loops of monotonous sounds would be great for sleep videos ( 8 hours of fog horn, generators, lamp turning gear etc? ) just might go viral. (We tried that with one of our Kaphi Kapa coffee roasting videos, although never went viral !) Thanks as ever for your great efforts .
Thank you Phil for your very kind comments, much appreciated. Some good ideas there as well, some that I've toyed with thanks, but nothing definite yet. Cheers and stay safe
Another wonderful film, thank you. It is lovely to see the pride you and your colleagues had in your jobs.
Enjoy all of your films Peter, especially this one. Hard nowadays to imagine the wide variation of jobs keepers had to do. And to think that by 1974 the entire coastline of England/Wales was protected by just 250 keepers is just mind-blowing. Must be hard to get sleep when the fog horn is blowing though.
Thank you Duncan, strangely though, once you got used to the fog horn, it quite often woke you up when it stopped! Glad you liked the video, cheers and stay safe Mate
Watching 2024. Thank u Peter . Great film .
Thank you very much, stay safe.
I know my Sunday is going to start well when Peter uploads another interesting video. Looking forward to casting this to the Big Screen for my breakfast viewing. Hope this comment finds you well Peter.
it is indeed
Wow what a truly fantastic video Peter an amazing insight into the life of Lizard lighthouse very emotional to knowing this wonderful profession is about to come to an end . The pride and skill in the machinery nothing comes close to that today . You deserve a knighthood for filming this history for future generations to remember and enjoy. Thank you so much 👏👏
Thank you David for your very kind comments. Glad you enjoyed it, not sure what comes next as I've pretty much run out of content other than some ideas still up in the air, but still have several audio tapes. Cheers and stay safe.
I’m saving this one until I’ve got the time to enjoy it properly from start to finish. Thanks again Peter!
dude i frickin love your channel. i binge watched all your videos back 2 back
Thank you very much mountain man, glad you found the channel. Take care and stay safe.
Always interesting. I have seen Lighthouses from San Diego California , through Oregon, Washington on the West Coast of the USA and some of British Columbia Canada. Thank you from Bakersfield California USA.
Thanks again Peter. Perhaps you could make a video in your own words telling us what happened after you were made redundant 😮 (I did note you drove for the RAF) and how it was like leaving something you loved so much.
I agree, I think these videos are excellent as is Peters narration
Thanks Peter for another amazing video. You should make a compilation video of the foghorns you have recorded. Would be very interesting and amazing. Thanks for keeping history alive
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it, cheers and take care
@@PeterHalil would you know what jobs the fellow Keepers in this video did after redundancy from the service and if they are still with us today?
@@aodhanquinn3000 I'm hoping they are still with us, but I don't know for sure as we all lost touch. I also have no idea what they all did other than Fred, who was retired before I was made redundant, sorry. cheers and stay safe.
@PeterHalil Hi Peter hipe you are well. What would have happened or what would the course of action be if the fog signal coder or timer suddenly malfunctioned? How would the fog horn have been sounded if that was the case and had it ever happened before. Cheers.
Thank you so much for shooting, editing and uploading all this footage. It's a precious record - I hope there are copies in a suitable archive as this is fabulous social history which should be treasured. Apart from visiting South Stack and being impressed by the lenses I've never given lighthouses much thought - until now - wow! (Although with climate change and increasingly severe storms I'm quite glad none of you are out at sea on the towers any more).
Thank you Rachel for your very kind comments, much appreciated. No, my videos have not made it to an archive source yet, we've been trying but have come up against little interest other than one that wanted me to sign over copyright to them! no chance. Will still keep looking. Thanks again and stay safe.
Wow, your film makes the Manacles look almost inviting. As a youngster in the 80s in Mullion I'd go down to the Old Inn, I remember there was supposed to be bad luck taking a drink from a Lighthouse man?
The early throaty Fog Horn was oddly comforting heard from Meaver Road and drowned out the sound of Helicopters, in the Winter during a severe Gale I imagined if Cornwall was set adrift by the Sea we could always be found by the Lighthouses and horns.
In 1995 I went to Jersey and met Ted and his Wife who were the Keepers at La Corbiere Lighthouse off St Aubins, earlier in the day he'd lent me a pair of 20 x 50 Zeiss binoculars the Germans had left behind after 1945.
Very odd interior to that building, the living space was all on the bottom floor and maybe thirty foot high with a spiral staircase to go to the Light and machinery floors. 6 months on Jersey and that random meeting was my favourite day.
Thank you for all those memories Peter, much appreciated. I've never heard that bad luck one about taking a drink from a Lighthouse Keeper before. I wonder if it was told so that you bought them one ? Cheers
Hi Peter,
Be interesting if you could do another film looking back on your lighthouse days and what happened after the unwanted redundancies?
Quite sad to see a keeper being made redundant.
A great video
Cheers Joe, Yes it was emotional times that we all went through back then. We are getting thin on the ground now.
Superb in depth video, fascinating to watch. I’ve always found lighthouses so exciting and graceful. What are your thoughts on the static LED replacements that so many lighthouses are receiving now? I mean I totally get why it’s happening, but it’s so sad to see these magnificent lenses being retired. My nearest lighthouse is Portland Bill, which I’m sure you’re aware had an incredible lens with a very complex flash characteristic. It’s just not the same now they’ve replaced it. Thank you for your amazing videos.
Thank you very much Richard, much appreciated. LED & empty Lighthouses Mmm? Soulless springs to mind, cheers and stay safe.
Absolutely brilliant video pete ,remember going there in 1999 with Rod and got a free tour of the hole complex By pk eddie mathews showed me how the Davy escape worked the weather station and engine room O boy was i in paradise .Hope your all safe and well cheers john.
Thank you John, glad you liked it. Don't know what they kept of that engine room for the visitors to see, perhaps one day I might get back to see? Cheers and stay safe
I always enjoy these. Thanks Peter.
Thank you, glad you've enjoyed them, stay safe
Thanks Peter another gem of a video. The lizard featured in Robbie Coltrane plane, trains,and automobiles all about the diesel engine.
Quick question, if the curtains in the lamp room we're there to stop sunlight refracting through the glass and starting a fire. Which I'm sure has happened, what happens now that there are no keepers on station ???
Hi, Glad you liked the video. as for curtains and fires now the places are unmanned, If they keep the big rotating lenses, then they are kept running all day to stop that problem. Otherwise, the stationary lenses (that don't have the big circular bulls eye magnifying lenses in) they have the LED lights and no curtains and don't seem to be effected by the sun. Cheers and stay safe
@@PeterHalil thanks Peter that explains a lot. Thank 👍
Peter's vids prompt me to ask many ?? but that one never popped up and it is a great question.
Great video again mate, nice to show us an old way of life inside something we can't really get to see, although the Lizard does have a holiday cottage. Can't wait for the next one.
Thank you, glad you liked it. Unless I can pull something out of the bag, all I have left now are audios, cheers and stay safe.
@@PeterHalil I've only just found out about your channel through a Reddit comment, and to be honest I haven't watched a video all the way through yet. My grandfather has been a fisherman quite longer than I've been alive and I'm sure has used lighthouses for navigation and a feeling of safety in the ocean. It's fascinating to know what it used to take to operate this massive piece of history, navigation, and technology.
Is there any way you would be able to start visiting the same lighthouses you've made videos of to be able to showcase what's changed, and maybe learn how they now are operated? I would be very interested in learning about the new technology and how it's changed from your era as well as watching all your existing videos about how life in lighthouses used to be.
@@RimsideStudios Hi, Glad you found my channel, and hope you enjoy the videos. I doubt that I will be revisiting the lighthouses in my videos, unless I'm on holiday near one that opens to tourists. The reason is that Trinity House wont let me! new rules apparently, and being an ex Keeper counts for not very much. I missed a couple of lights before I was made redundant, and they wont let me visit those to complete my lighthouse task, hopefully though, and it's a big maybe, somebody still employed by Trinity will video those for me. Your Grandfather must have had an interesting sea life, cheers and stay safe
@@PeterHalil he has for sure. I'm still trying to have him take me out on the Pacific but distance makes it difficult haha.
It's unfortunate to hear about with the way things have evolved for the lighthouses. Thank you for recording what you have though
Great video with lots of tranquil scenes just right for a Sunday morning. You must have been doing something right to be amongst the final 30 keepers before they all went. If this wasn't a tower or rock station why couldn't you see your family at some point during Xmas day?
Thank you for your kind comments. The easy answer to why I couldn't see my Family over the Christmas period was my home is 7 hours plus away, also I was on duty. Couldn't they have travelled down to me? No, we only have one car. Just one of those things that happen to lots of Families over Christmases etc. Cheers and take care
Outstanding job Peter. Fred was an outstanding tour guide, I knew about the mercury but I didn't know there was 800lbs of it. I didn't remember that the Lizard was in Cornwall, isn't that where you get the best pasty?
Thank you, and yes to Fred being a great tour guide. He went into much more detail than I did. Where I was lacking on some of the historic dates, I made up with telling about life in a lighthouse out to sea. And yes, the Lizard pasty shop mmm! cheers and take care
Absolutely fascinating, Thankyou👍🇮🇲
Thank you Andy, glad you liked it, cheers and stay safe
Fancy bit of editing here, juxtaposing the wiping of the lens with the bunny performing its morning ablution. Fellini would be envious.
Thank you, yes, I just thought it went well together, my sense of humour Ha. Cheers and stay safe
So interesting comparing UK towers to Australian ones. I’ve noticed most of the UK ones have the balcony directly in front of the glass and lenses, where as here, the glass is 2m higher than the balcony
Hi, That's an interesting observation that I hadn't noticed, cheers for that. Stay safe and take care
Wow, really marvellous video
Thank you very much for your kind comments, always appreciated. Cheers and take care.
I'm in love with the sound of the foghorn
Me too, perhaps I should do a video of all of the fog horn sounds that I have? I even have a recording of the San Francisco Bay bridge in fog with lots of ships/fog horns plus traffic in the mix, quite atmospheric. No idea of the author so don't know if I could ever upload it. I think it was done in the 60's era? Cheers and stay safe.
Its 2 fog sirens in an octave dual tone
@@PeterHalili wonder how loud in decibels it is. Its sad the mighty moo of the siren has gon to a pathetic little beep. Same with other diaphones and sirens on the coasts of the world. Typhon horns dont do it for me. I love the MWOOOOOOOO MWOOO of this fog siren
@@jezcolborne6329 Thank you for your comments. The old fog horns are the one that I love the best too. Even the new electric ones will be doomed to all go, if they haven't gone already.
@@PeterHalil i am going to be makung a show about lighthouses in the past. There will be old lighthouse keepers on films telling stories snd sounds of old diaphone fog horns and fog sirens. I will be playing a lighthouse keeper who has been in his lighthouse for years and no one knew he was still there. He has been forgotten and in time gets delusional. He starts to have bad dreams of equipment coming to life and trying to automate his lighthouse. He then sees 2 robots who try to attack him because he hates them messing with the fog siren and other gear. Time goes on and the lighthouse is no longer his. The fog siren is now a horrible beep from an electronic hooter but he turns that off and tries to switch the old fog siren back on but the controle pannel wont let him. He gives up and wakes from his nightmare only to find that the lighthouse is realy automated. So he dicides instead of battling this new tech why not have a rave instead so thats what happens and there is music with me being a distant fog siren and other foghorns sounding.
At 16:55 I see what appears to be an HF aerial slung from the Lighthouse lamp section, any idea what design of antenna it is.
That was the radio beacon, that several lighthouses had.
old fashioned (now) form of navigation.
No problem Peter.
I remember being there in the mid 80s, summer 86 I think, was foggy, nearly died of fright when the foghorn sounded
Yes it was quite a noisy beast, cheers.
I note all the Machinery is so well engineered to last decades.
Wow looks like ive learnt something today especaly the engine room cuz i love engines
Yes, the engine room was rather special at the Lizard. I'm not sure what it looks like now though, as I haven't been back since my redundancy. Thanks and take care.
@@PeterHalil Will so 😉
Lizard Lighthouse has one of the most badass sounding fog horns, it almost sounds like a diaphone. One guy who said on another video it could be heard 22 miles away.
Thank you for your comments. And yes, I love/loved the Lizard fog horn too. I think that wonderful engine room, and all we had to do to get it to make the noise, made it that bit more special. Cheers and stay safe
Your coworker acting as the “tour guide” did an excellent job…I’m sure he’d given that speech hundreds of times by then but he still sounds just as enthusiastic about the history and mechanics of the Light as somebody on their first day.
Thank you very much, yes Fred was a great friend and Principal Keeper. Sadly no longer with us . RIP Fred. Thanks again for your comments and take care.
I forgot to ask Peter is Fred still with us ? He seems a good old character who knows his stuff
Hi David, to the best of my knowledge, Fred is still with us, he was a brilliant PK to serve with on my last Lighthouse, cheers. Take care
@@PeterHalil 😎👍👍
I hope the lighthouse keepers quarters were sound insulated. Being stuck in a rock with that fog horn blowing non-stop must've been annoying to put it mildly.
No sound proofing at all, and yes it was loud! Cheers and stay safe
@@PeterHalil Thank you for documenting this way of life. It's priceless. All the best to you and yours.
was that your car up by lighthouse? Fiat tipo??
No Barry, it was not mine, cheers
This was quite hard to watch ... I find it hard to accept that this way of keeping people safe was deemed so worthless than a price tag became more important.
Hi Matt, Yes, I agree, but then I'm heavily biased. Everything now seems to come down to cost, apart from Politicians and CEO's wages! Take care and stay safe
Oh I wouldn't say your biased ... you've just seen the reality of the situation. All the best chap.
I would love a job keeping the fog horn maintained and living in the lighthouse. There's no magic in an electric fog horn and an automated light
Yes, that was a job that I went to work every day with a big smile, you felt like you were doing something, not just part of the machinery. Cheers mate and take care.
The foghorn sounds fantastic!!! What was its range?
Hi, The range of the fog horns are very hard to work out. It all depended on the thickness of the fog/weather conditions, but on a clear day when testing, it was several miles. cheers and stay safe.
Around 20+ miles.
Wow!!
Gee him the job! He knows our club & understands our strategic way of play, no brainer for me, alternatively neil lennon back would be a must, we need to stop bringing in managers that are recluse, we need a boss that knows the club! Mon hibs
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I was trying to reply to my football club highlights when I was binge watching your channel mate, my bad!😄 Your footage of your experiences of living so remote is very fascinating & a life I wish I led, it's sad that so many lighthouses are automated and obsolete nowadays.. my childhood favourite is our own Scottish Isle of Fidra lighthouse, the public don't seem to have access inside 😮💨 even on the bass rock, great videos nether the less mate
No worries, one of my greatest regrets was not filming the Scottish Lighthouses too. I shall now have to google Fidra to see what you mean. Cheers Mate and stay safe@@MessianicChristianFollowship86
@PeterHalil thanks for the reply Peter 🙏 Your videos help me relax hell of a lot, been fascinated with the lighthouse life all my years ✝️
Cheers, yes my job was a very relaxing sort of job at times, it is/was a shame that it is gone forever, I do miss it. Cheers and stay safe.@@MessianicChristianFollowship86
Where did it get the name lizard
Hi Barry, The Lizard name derives from the Cornish Lis for 'place' and Ard for 'high', or court. Cheers.
@@PeterHalil very interesting thank you