Mull of Galloway, Lighthouse View from NNW showing tower and lightkeepers' houses
SC 449715
Description Mull of Galloway, Lighthouse View from NNW showing tower and lightkeepers' houses
Date 27/8/1974
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 449715
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Mull of Galloway Lighthouse, Wigtownshire This lighthouse marks the extreme south-west of Scotland. It was designed by Robert Stevenson, and is a good example of one of his larger, later towers. The flat-roofed keepers' houses are original, but the engine room for the foghorn is later. This view shows the engine room behind the tower, with the compressed-air reservoirs for the fog-horn to the left of the tower. The triangular-paned lantern is a replacement of Stevenson's original square-paned one. By the time this photograph was taken the light had been electrified and automated, using multiple sealed-beam, car-headlamp, bulbs. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H74/221/7
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