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Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders
Date 2007
Event ID 610116
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/610116
TThe Isle of May at the entrance to the Firth of Forth, about one mile long and one-third of a mile wide, for centuries resulted in the shipwrecks of many vessels plying to and from the Forth ports, a situation which led to the erection there of the first lighthouse in Scotland (NT69NE 3). The original coal-fired light was replaced in 1816 by the present architecturally imposing lighthouse reminiscent of a small castle, with accommodation for three lighthouse keepers and their families and visiting officials, designed and erected under the direction of Robert Stevenson. It had a fixed light consisting of Argand oil lamps with parabolic silvered reflectors. In 1836 it was replaced by the first British dioptric fixed light, with novel refractors made by Cookson of Newcastle.
R Paxton and J Shipway 2007
Reproduced from 'Civil Engineering heritage: Scotland - Lowlands and Borders' with kind permission from Thomas Telford Publishers.
