Photographic copy of plan, section and elevation showing boatman's house.

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E 25792 CN

Description Photographic copy of plan, section and elevation showing boatman's house.

Date 27/8/1858

Collection Records of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number E 25792 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 9218

Copies SC 781553

Scope and Content Photographic copy of plan, section and elevation of the boatman's house, Lighthouse keepers' Houses, Grunay, Out Skerries, Shetland Islands This shows a plan, section and elevation of the boatman's house. The accommodation comprises two main living rooms, a hall and stores. The house is brick-built with sandstone dressings, is single-storeyed, and has a pitched roof. The keepers of Bound Skerry lived within the tower itself when on duty, but moved to the larger accommodation blocks on nearby Grunay island when off duty. It was this island which was bombed by a German aircraft during World War II on 18 January 1942. The mother of the lighthouse boatman died in the attack, which also destroyed houses and stores and damaged outbuildings and the flagpole used for signalling. A temporary light was established on Grunay island in 1854 by request of Her Majesty's Navy to protect the Northern Squadron during the Russian War (1853-6). The island was used to house off-duty keepers in accommodation designed by engineers David (1815-86) and Thomas Stevenson (1818-87) and built 1857-8, after a permanent lighthouse was built on Bound Skerry Island in 1858. The building now stands derelict, the lighthouse being automated in 1972. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium colour negative

External Reference C/82/15

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