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Lewis, Butt of Lewis Lighthouse General View

SC 466402

Description Lewis, Butt of Lewis Lighthouse General View

Collection Papers of Professor John R Hume, economic and industrial historian, Glasgow, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 466402

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 layout of the station, with the lighthouse, foghorn tower and two-storey keepers' houses on the right, and the engine room and lattice radio tower to the left. The engine room housed air compressors for the foghorn. 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 H76/13/13

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/466402

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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Attribution: © Copyright: HES. (Reproduced courtesy of J R Hume).

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