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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 589230
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/589230
A major light and fog horn, with a tower only 29 ft high but, being on the headland, its light is about 223 ft abovesea level giving a range of 29 miles. When operating, the 3 000 000 candlepower light flashes white every ten seconds.
The station was erected in 1862 under the direction of Northern Lighthouse Board engineers D. & T. Stevenson.
The inclined astragals in the lantern glazing, to minimise interference with the light beam, were a feature first introduced by Alan Stevenson about two decades earlier. The first Scottish lighthouse foghorn was introduced here in 1876. It is no longer operational.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission of Thomas Telford Publishers.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
