View of Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Lewis.
SC 466401
Description View of Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Lewis.
Date 1976
Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 466401
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Butt of Lewis Lighthouse, Lewis, Ross and Cromarty This tall tapering circular-section red brick tower was designed by D and T Stevenson for the Northern Lighthouse Board, and is situated on the nothernmost point of the Isle of Lewis. This view shows the unpainted lighthouse tower in between the two-storey, flat-roofed keepers' houses and the foghorn tower with its compressed air tanks at the base. The horn was up on top of a tower to protect it from stormy seas. Since 1976 the light has, in common with all other Northern Lighthouse Board lights, been automated, and it is now controlled from Edinburgh. The cliff under the foghorn tower was undermined, and the tower has been demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference H76/13/12
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