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General view from SE Photographic survey 20-Aug-1992
B 76284 CN
Description General view from SE Photographic survey 20-Aug-1992
Date 1992
Catalogue Number B 76284 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 787639
Scope and Content Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Western Isles from the south-east This shows the tall brick tower (right) with its cream-painted dressings and domed lantern with revolving shade to create the familiar flashing effect by which lighthouses are identified by shipping. Below the tower are the single-storeyed keepers' cottages (left), weather station (centre) and two-storeyed principal keeper's house (centre right). The lighthouse is now remotely monitored from the Northern Lighthouse Board's headquarters in Edinburgh, and is one of the transmitting stations for Differential GPS (Global Positioning System), a satellite-based navigation system available to all mariners. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse was built in 1862 to designs by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87) and stands on the farthest northern tip of the Isle of Lewis, officially the windiest spot in the UK. The 37m-high red brick tower is surmounted by a black domed lantern, and has a light which flashes white every five seconds, with a range of 40km over the Atlantic Ocean. The keepers lived in white-painted, flat-roofed cottages around the tower until the complex was automated in 1998. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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