A Lighthouse keeper's guided tours, Episode Seven. South & South West Coast of England
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- The Tour carries on along the South coast, opposite the Needles Lighthouse at Hurst Point Lighthouse. This is situated next to Hurst Castle. Then onto the South West coast to Anvil Point Lighthouse before reaching Portland Bill Lighthouse.
Two books that may be of further use are: The British Lighthouse Trail, by Sarah Kerr and Lighthouse Accommodation, Britain & Worldwide by Joy Tubby
useful contacts:
trinityhouse.co.uk/lighthouse-visitor-centres
trinityhouse.co.uk/contact
phone: 020 7481 6900
ruralretreats.co.uk/lighthouse-cottages
phone: 01386701177
and: Old High Light
lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk/directory/portland-old-high-lighthouse/
and: Old Low Light
lighthouseaccommodation.co.uk/directory/portland-old-low-lighthouse/
Peter, I just discovered your channel tonight, and find your documentaries to be quite fascinating. Best wishes to you, and keep up the great work.
Hi, I've just discovered your comments from 3 months ago that have some how slipped past the notification bit! Sorry for that, not my fault. Thank you very much for your kind comments. Glad you found my channel. Take care and stay safe.
Thank you for your videos! Amazing work. I love lighthouses.
Thank you, very much appreciated, and take care and stay safe
Thank you Peter for another fascinating video. I used to live just don't the road from durlston light, spent many a night listening to that bloody fog horn !!! Used to fish in the area too, the old boys said there was always a lobster under the lighthouse, and by god they were right, caught many a blue under the light.
Thank you Jack. I was on one Lighthouse where we had been "Sounding" for thick fog for several days and nights, non stop! We were approached by the Holiday makers in the National trust property next door, and offered serious money, if we would only turn the damn thing off, they hadn't slept in days. The fog eventually cleared and we could turn it off. Cheers and stay safe.
Lol, I can quote believe it, townies complaining about the noise !!! I've brought the boat in a few times from offshore to the light and fog horn of durlston and a few other's, 👍
Thanks again Peter, still enthralled with your videos!
Thank you very much, I've enjoyed making them. Stay safe Mate.
I remember seeing the beams of light from the old tuning lens lights especially if there was a bit of drizzle, shame you don't see that now with on off flashing LED jobs
Thank you for that. Yes I miss the beams from the Lighthouses too. Cheers and take care
Great video. But it might be a good idea to also put the link and contact details for the accommodations in the description 😁👍
Thank you, maybe a bit late for the suggestion, I shall have to look into it, cheers and take care.
Peter as many, many people have said, thank you for recording this whole series. I',m almost binge watching it all.
I am interested in the Mercury. In this day and age, there's almost a blind panic about it, yet many of us grew up with mercury thermometers put in mouths at the slightest aliment. And we were told to be sensible should it be spilt etc.
There was obviously a lot of Mercury used for the lamp support, and I would assume it was open to the room; was there precautions, such as limiting time around it etc for you as keepers?
Hi, Thank you very much. And yes the Mercury, mmm. Basically, we knew it was lethal stuff, but no we were never given any restrictions as such. We never stayed up in the lantern like they did in the past. Whenever we did a big clean of the lens, we would sensibly ventilate the room. I remember once our Safety Officer turning up to do a demo on topping up some mercury and he was in a plastic see through space suit affair. But that was never brought into service anywhere. Thanks again and stay safe
@@PeterHalil Thank you for the reply, very interesting. As with most things, things I did as routine, suddenly became the biggest health and safety issue you could imagine. Changing truck batteries went from coveralls in day-to-day work, to full PPE, and eventually specialist REME support.
I'm not for one moment saying safety is bad, but it can be odd looking back on what was the norm.
My final comment is also to say to all of the former Keepers, like yourself, and indeed the people supporting the lamps today, as a user of Commercial and Non commercial vessels around the UK, thank you for your service and keeping us safe.
As they say GPS tells us where it thinks it is, a light tells us exactly where we are.
Thanks Peter.
Thank you very much, especially for that lovely quote at the end. Mercury, I remember in a Science lesson in secondary school, we were given a little drop each on our desks to play with to see how it reacted. Ah the good old days! Ha, stay safe.@@hypergolic8468
Greetings Peter, the Anvil Point, was that a mail slot in the door? That jumped out at me.
Hi, yes it was I guess. The postmen get everywhere. Cheers Mate and stay safe.
Stunning as usual. This grand tour is brilliant. Some of these I know very well, but others, I know very little about, I know of them but that is it. Looking forward to my former home county of Devon and neighbouring Cornwall, I've seen your previous videos on them and I think they are sublime. Keep up the amazing work sir.
Thank you very much Aaron. My last Lighthouse ever was in Cornwall, and I've done duty shifts in Devon. Plymouth etc was also my Navy years. Cheers and stay safe
I trying to watch every episode as possible! There are so many of them and I don't want to skip over! Thanks again! You're the best of the keeper of lighthouse!
I'm fascinating about every lighthouse history and hard worker to keep it live!
God bless you!
Thank you very much. I'm just the guy who bought the camera and tried my best not to let all of our Lighthouse History/stories, vanish without a trace. Cheers and take care.
Marvellous, very good. With lighthouses unmanned, if no custodian such as the rock lights, wonder how the curtains get drawn to stop the sunlight reacting with the lense prisms and causing damage, a motor to draw them across, but that might fail or some other system?
Hi, When they were first automated, Trinity got around the problem by no curtains and keeping the lens turning 24/7. They didn't seem to have a problem with the static lenses. Nowadays they seem to be going down the route of removing the big lenses and putting in the LED type contraptions, or cover the lens up and put LED on outside. Cheers and stay safe.
@Peter Halil many thanks for info.
Thank you Peter for more awesome videos , what a great name the keeper had in the previous video Sid Squib 😄😎.
Some great footage of the lenses in this one 💡. 👏👏
Thank you David, Yes Sid Squibb, one of those names never forgotten, great guy. Cheers and take care
Really good, not so familiar with these. A few weeks before you're up at the Bristol Channel 😊😊
Thanks a lot, yes it will be a while before my videos turn the corner and head up Bristol way. Cheers and stay safe.
I went to flat holm first in the 80s, they used to have large generator containers there then, now gone since automation.
I used to see Breaksea light float on the way to school (a long time ago). Saw it being refuelled by ship once. Gone now too. I wonder where it ended up.
@@user-tn1vc1xz5d Hi, I enjoyed my one and only all day visit to Flatholm to video. Not really nice to see the deterioration of the inside of the Tower since no Keepers in it. But they call that progress. Yes also very sad about the Lightships, somebody must know where they all ended up? Cheers and stay safe