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View from N of Principal Keeper's house Photographic survey 20-Aug-1992
B 76288
Description View from N of Principal Keeper's house Photographic survey 20-Aug-1992
Date 1992
Catalogue Number B 76288
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 787651
Scope and Content Principal keeper's house from north, Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Western Isles This shows the two-storeyed, three-bayed house which was provided as accommodation for the principal keeper and his family. The house has whitewashed walls, a flat roof, and external stairs to the main entrance door on the first floor. The lighthouse was manned by three keepers who would ensure the light was cleaned and fuelled, maintain the turning mechanism and foghorn, monitor and record weather conditions, and, until 1971, act as the radio link for the keepers on the Flannan Isles Lighthouse. Butt of Lewis Lighthouse was built in 1862 to designs by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87) and stands on the northernmost 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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