Photographic copy showing elevation and sections of lighthouse keepr's house. Northern Lights, sheet No. VI

Description Photographic copy showing elevation and sections of lighthouse keepr's house. Northern Lights, sheet No. VI

Date 1/1853

Collection Records of the Northern Lighthouse Board, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number E 25810 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copy of DC 9224

Copies SC 781555

Scope and Content Photographic copy of elevation and sections, Lighthouse keepers' Houses, Grunay, Out Skerries, Shetland Islands This shows the keepers' houses, with their flat roofs, tall, angular chimneys, advanced central block, and 12-paned glazing. The coloured section drawings below show how a chimney is used by two fires in separate rooms (left), and a cross section of the workshop (right). This island 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, damaged outbuildings and the flagpole used for signalling. The north wing was demolished, and the sandstone blocks were stacked nearby for future uses, where they remain to this day. 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/82/21

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