Photographic copy of drawing showing plan, elevation and section of storehouse and section of boundary wall near the landing place.

Description Photographic copy of drawing showing plan, elevation and section of storehouse and section of boundary wall near the landing place.

Date 12/1856

Collection Records of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number E 25985 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 9210

Copies SC 781421

Scope and Content Photographic copy of section, elevation and plan of storehouse, Ushenish Lighthouse, South Uist, Western Isles This shows a sheet of drawings of the stores to be built near the landing place. These include a section through the simple single-storeyed stone building (top left), an elevation of the façade with its fine stone dressings (centre top), an elevation of the boundary wall (top right), a large plan of the store within its walled enclosure and the path leading to the door (centre), and even a small drawing showing a section through part of the low wall (centre right). This storehouse would have been used to protect stores of fuel for the lighthouse, and provisions for the keepers, who had a separate flat-roofed accommodation block nearby. Ushenish Lighthouse, on the east coast of South Uist, was first lit on 10th November 1857, and was built to designs by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87). The 12m-high white tower stands on rocky cliffs 54m above the Sea of the Hebrides, usually known as The Minch. The light flashes white to red every 20 seconds, and its range varies between 28km (the red light), and 35km (the white light). Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium colour negative

Accession Number 1987/10

External Reference C/81/6

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