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St Abb's Head. Photographic copy of drawings of additional dwelling house in plan and elevation and details of window frames and centre gutter, together with general location plan. Sheet No. 2.
E 25883 CN
Description St Abb's Head. Photographic copy of drawings of additional dwelling house in plan and elevation and details of window frames and centre gutter, together with general location plan. Sheet No. 2.
Date 9/10/1877
Collection Records of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number E 25883 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of DC 9040
Copies SC 783960
Scope and Content Photographic copy of details of additional dwelling house, St Abb's Head Lighthouse, Scottish Borders This shows an elevation and plan of the roof of the new dwelling house (left), a section through the window frame showing shutters (centre), and a section and elevation of guttering (top right). The inset map (bottom right) shows the site plan with the new structure indicated in red. The building of a lighthouse on St Abb's Head was recommended by the Northern Lighthouse Board after the sinking of a ship called the 'Martello' on Carr Rock in 1857. The light was to serve as a guide to shipping when they had lost sight of either the Bell Rock or Isle of May lighthouses. The nominal range of the light is 46km. St Abb's Head Lighthouse was built in 1862 to designs by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87). The squat tower on its single-storeyed base is surmounted by a triangular-paned lantern with domed top, and stands in a dramatic cliff-top position overlooking the North Sea near Coldingham. The complex also includes a foghorn on a single-storeyed base, and a two-storeyed, M-gabled four-bayed cottage which was used for keepers' accommodation. The light was automated in 1993, and the keepers' houses were adapted for use as holiday homes in 1999. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
Accession Number 1987/10
External Reference C/68/30
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/743871
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Attribution: © Northern Lighthouse Board. Courtesy of HES
Licence Type: Limited
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